"This collection was written after a trip to China in 2002. ... What I had encountered there ... reminded me of the history of Jesuits back home in Iroquoia ..."--Introduction.
"Notes" : p. 66.
Introduction (dis)Orient Three Translations from Characters Found on a Lovers Body Five Poems from the Paintings of Lang Shining: Eight Horses Dog Under Flowers The White Gibbon Pheasants among Rocks and Flowers The Time-Telling Plant from the West Imagining Shanghai: 3 Poems: Bianfu Xishuai Long Canal The Mutual Life A Species of Martyrdom: The Huronia Series: Jean de Brebeuf Gabriel Lalemant Anthony Daniel Rene Goupil Jean de Lalande Isaac Jogues Noel Chabanel Charles Garnier Pax Lacrosse Night Iroquoia Tonawanda Swamps Pan-Am The Awful Ease of Tides Alphabets of Letters