Part map, part travelogue, part chronicle, part autobiography,Well observed, careful, and shot through with sadness, this eighth set of poems . . . is [Bakers] best.This book [is] sharper and stronger than the calmer poems that Baker has written before. . . . His poems show a life almost helplessly regretful, fortunate in obvious ways, yet excruciating in its limits.This collection is moving, emotionally raw, yet subtle and careful.Benjamin S. Grossberg,