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Song sees the fractured world of immigrant Asians with compassionate yet cool eyes. These sensual, calm poems are themselves the fruit of East-to-West transplanting.

This collection of poetry, Cathy Song's fourth, unveils glimpses of the elusive but ever-present power of wisdom and compassion. Recognizing that we have the ability to create our own misery as well as our own bliss, the poet finds the unexpected in broken lives, despair and even joyous occasions.

These poems, threaded by the teachings of Buddha, examine loss--the death of a loved one, the longing for a child, the yearning for another place and time--and the suffering such attempts transpire, but ultimately the poems are an affirmation that to be born into human life is our greatest opportunity to transform loss and sorrow into awakening joy.

Cathy Song's poems are "bouquets to those moments in life that seemed minor but in retrospect count the most, " Richard Hugo said of the poet's first book. "She accommodates experiential extremes with a sensibility strengthened by patience that is centuries old, ancestral, tribal, a gift passed down.