Road Scatter (as in tire-sprayed gravel) is an examination of breakage
and survival, compelled by the decline and death of the poet's mother
but engaged, too, by global encounters with the Iraq war, a rabid dog in
Africa, and an at-large South American former dictator, for example.
Though a book of mourning, it is also one of living, "rising from grief,
returning light in all directions." --Jane Hirshfield