Fictional essays on the poetics of living, art & love … a collection of prose-poems which the author herself says “are not as useful as ribs but like them do protect life and when removed from the body hrow certain murmurings of the mind.” And not only murmurings, but whoops, shouts, lamentations and celebrations are what these endlessly inventive pieces are. Into the increasingly rich field of the prose-poem the stirrings of the heart in its many-sidedness and anxiety are picked over and fondled.

Bryan McCarvey takes you inside a Japanese monastery and leaves you—where?—somewhere larger than where you thought you were. The silences are palpable, the writing is crisp and exploratory, the many photographs are paired with poems to stunning effect.

A collection of meditative short poems well beyond the token or atmospheric.