Influenced by thehistory of landscape painting, Cole Swensen's new book is an experiment in seriality,inthe different approach and scope that language must take to record the waythatfluctuations of minutiae transform a whole.Thesepoems meditate on what it is simply to look at the world, without judgment, without intervention, without appropriation. Swensen's lyric observations, lilting and delicate, distill the act of seeing.

"Swensen's poetry documents a penetrating 'intellectus'-light of the mind-by turns fragile, incandescent, transcendent."-Anne Waldman