"Among other things, Shepherd has always been an elemental poet. His work abounds with the imagery and motifs of water and fire, and while those elements are important here, it is air and earth that are the more dominant elements in this collection. . . .
Clay, red clay in particular, recurs several times throughout the collection as a motif of earth. It is the substance of creation, but always of impermanent things, whether heroes or Babylonian statues with feet of clay, or of things durable but fragile, such as the cuneiform tablets of 'A Parking Lot Just Outside the Ruins of Babylon.'"
-Robert Philen, from the Foreword
- ISBN10 1322068542
- ISBN13 9781322068541
- Publish Date 1 January 2011
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 9 June 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Pittsburgh Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 103
- Language English