The Ginseng Hunter's Notebook records a vital and eccentric dance for
life. In poems of brilliant texture and intimate gesture, the poet,
wounded yet resilient, evokes a music as compelling and fresh as
birdsong. In her love of language, and in her reasons for travel, Deanne
Lundin calls to mind Elizabeth Bishop as she searches for something to
name home, and for the knowledge to solve the equations of the human
heart. Here is the wayfarer's journal in which each item has been
carefully observed and duly entered as though it might harbor the one
true remedy for the soul's longing.