The seventy-six meditations, prose and tone poems on the Southeast Asian landscape, evoke correspondences in aesthetic, cultural, social, and spiritual realms. Sensory experience of "Asia" and "Asian" is remade with an outlier's freshness that weighs "Cathay" with "Christmas," traditional-rich heritage with the "breathless poor" and "rickshaw baggage" culture. Its landscape of vision recreates one art of-a-piece with "blissful invisible people" whom "you can almost hear/as fresh Asian spirits not yet setting out from the other side."