isolation and agora, reminiscent of Kobo Abe's powerful novel The Woman in the Dunes. The
considerable beauty of the work is achieved not through rhetorical striving but by quietly
establishing the precision of the case: 'She has never / stood so close / to anything / as she is / to
that / which the sand / takes.' The tone and rhythm of the work are perfect, as sand, woman, and
city drift into each other"--Paul Hoover.