Poetry. Haiku. This book is one of the finest examples showing the variety of ways in which American haiku has explored its poetic potential during the last thirty years. One and three-line haiku, rensaku (sequential composition), renku, haibun, senryu, even tanka -- all are there, each form perfectly matching the subject that inspired the poet. Paga after page the reader discovers how on various occasions in her eventful life the author caught the essence of a moment and transformed it into a poem with a minimum use of words. -- Makoto Ueda.

Centered in northern New Mexico, this collection of poetry describes a series of journeys that create maps of place and memory. The poems travel south to deserts both mythical and real, east to childhood and the past, west to the Pacific and notions of Buddhism, and north to Alaska and a cold transcendence. Each section concludes with a return home where reflection charts locations and people lost to everything from the passage of time to urban renewal.