Contains poems of positions and relationships, shifting angles on received wisdom or cultural cliche, signifying in an age of raging information and vicious exploitation. The author tackles issues like racism and sexism, but with a poet's eye to details, moments, miracles, pains, and the wildness of the moon and stillness of water.

Patricia Spears Jones was born and raised in Arkansas, and has lived in New York City since the mid-1970s. She has been involved in the downtown poetry and theater scenes, working with Mahou Mines, the internationally acclaimed theater collective, and as a poet, teacher, and former Program Coordinator for the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church. She is the author of The Weather that Kills (Coffee House, 1995), and several chapbooks and plays. Spears Jones is a contributing editor of Heliotrope.