Clara Janes s most recent book is also her most singular. In the correspondence that accompanies this volume, she confesses to Antonio Gamoneda that it may be the most irrational work I have written. Nonetheless, the essential symbols that arise within it render this collection of poems revealing as only the water flowing under desert sands, as only the ray of sunlight that just once a year illuminates some secret of the mind. This edition includes a collection of postcards, collages, and fonts that Janes created to accompany the book. "