Front Cover -- About the Author -- Acknowledgements / Copyright -- Table of Contents -- 1 -- The Glacial Stairway -- Aria with Small Lights -- Shining Cliff -- Best at Night Alone -- Bits and Pieces Picked Up in April 2007 -- The Twelve Moons -- 2 -- Airs at Furthest Accord -- The Road… -- The Road (remix) -- The Road (carol) -- Cuban Nights -- Dreaming in La Habana -- To the Memory of Frank Cassidy -- Weddings of the Gypsy Flower Sellers -- This House… -- The Lark in the Clear Air -- Essex Skies -- 3 -- Kings Cross to SOAS -- Western States (1) -- Western States (2) -- Notes.

Featuring a decade's worth of work by British poet Peter Riley, this collection explores the pressures of history, culture, language, and place on the traveler through questioning lyrical poems and monologues. Most of these pieces derive from the experience of unfamiliar places from highland to wilderness, notably the Pyrenees, the Apennines, Derbyshire, Haute Provence, and the American West. Riley is keenly conscious of natural surroundings, and this compilation becomes a venue for the self-questioning of place and person.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.