Through the paintings of Vermeer, Michael White explores new landscapes
and transforms familiar ones in this extraordinary new collection of
poems. This captivating masterwork transports us across eras and
continents, from Confederate lynchings to the bombing of Dresden,
through its lyrical inhabitations of some of Vermeer's most revered
paintings, each one magically described and renewed. More than mere
ekphrasis, Michael White explores the transformative possibilities of
great art in his fourth collection, winner of the 2013 Lexi Rudnitsky
Editor's Choice Award.