Some people see numbers and hear music. Others hear music and see colors. Nan Tynberg reads literary works-novels, short stories, poetry, all-and envisions a physical presence, a shape. Shape: Reading in Three Dimensions is a collection of twenty essays that reflects the author's unique visual approach to literature. Storytellers and poets, as different as Silko and Hemingway or Rios and Dickinson, are put under a surprising new microscope. Because the essays represent a broad mix of diverse writers, time periods and genres, they are accessible to a wide range of good readers everywhere.