Don McKay has published nine books of poetry, including Birding, or desire (1983), Sanding Down This Rocking Chair on a Windy Night (1987), Night Field (1991), Apparatus (1997), and Another Gravity (2000). He is also known as a poetry editor, and he has taught poetry in universities across the country. He presently lives in British Columbia.

This extraordinary book is a celebration -of the quirky plenitude of nature, and of the deep rhythms of family life. Don McKay writes with great technical panache. But his attention to what he loves is so constant and so generous that we are left, not with mere virtuosity, but with a world renewed.