"a masterwork in five sections"

This collection moves as a masterwork in five sections, each named for a quality of light or its actions, finally rising to fullness in the fifth... Every poem in this collection seems to be the best of what it tries to be, whether an observation, anthropological recovery, ode, elegy, or even an ars poetica, “The Making of a Poet,” which explores his theme with vulnerability and confession. This verse collection is the twenty-first for Dawes, and the eighty-six poems here demonstrate a full, masterful command of his art.