Twenty new poems explore the fluidly interconnected states of being: memory, emotion, sleep, thought, and sensation, among others. Disclosing an acceptance of the world as it is, never refusing or diminishing life's full and reaching reality, Ludvigson possesses a joyous maturity that dovetails with the youthful urgency to know and understand exhibited in her early work. Selected pieces range from the long persona poems emphasizing Christ's humanness in Trinity to poems from The Beautiful Noon of No S