Powerful, exquisite, and intricately crafted, this poetic memoir spans and reconfigures 30 years of annbsp;award-winning writer's life. Ten years after beginning the project andnbsp;more than 40 years after first recording information about the people, places, and events upon which the poems are based, this thoroughly unique project has taken on a life of its own, bent and reshaped by experience, time, and revision.