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"Here is a book of luminous encounters, contradictions, collisions, interruptions, and meditations on art, nature, justice, historical memory, and territorial occupation. Browne's texts mine the harrowing destinies, and densities, of place, in this case, of the Northwest Coast of North America. This new work - in seven movements - is tuned to the autobiographical, alert to rhythm and improvisation, and immersed in a torrent of memory and tenderness. Here is a book for the ear. At its heart is the enigma of family. A central premise is that events are contiguous through time and space, and that ancestral experiences live on in the body physically, invisibly, mapping the present with stored-up longing and striving. The structure of the book conforms loosely to the chronological order in which the texts were composed, constituting a variation on a poet's daybook, a record of intersections, correspondences, and juxtapositions. The book's compositional model is borrowed from jazz improvisation; by locating a rhythm or a melodic line, and opening the field to associations, visions, rhymes, chance, interruption, and, one may wish, grace, the texts begin to summon and assemble themselves.