Carl Dennis has won acclaim for "wise original, and often deeply moving" poems that "ease the reader out of accustomed modes of seeing and perceiving" (The New York Times). Many of the poems in this, his eighth collection, involve an attempt to enter into dialogue with pagan and biblical perspectives, to throw light on ordinary experience through metaphor borrowed from religious myth and to translate religious myth into secular terms.

While making no claims to stable conclusions, these lucid, probing, agile poems help us name the everyday, available gods that are easy to ignore, both those that frustrate and those that sustain life and make it rewarding.

(From the book jacket)