Poetry. With illustrations by Evan Siegel. "The poems in Merle Bachman's DIORAMA WITH FLEEING FIGURES are intense, visceral and transformative. 'We aren't meant to know so much of the world, ' yet the knowing in this poetry is exactly what each of us craves, the 'translation not yet written' that leads us to both question and believe in the depth of human experience"--Colleen Lookingbill