72 pp.Winner of the 2003 James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American Poets. 'The extraordinary second collection of Vijay Seshadri, whose poems resound with ''The high-frequency channels of consciousness and the jazz of spoken language.'' ' ' 'Seshadri is the author of Wild Kingdom. His poems have appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, and in Best American Poetry. He was born in India and currently lives in Brooklyn.' 'Older than the rocks is she / across whom their shadows float. / A million rivers navigate / the necklace at her throat.'