Trace Elements From a Recurring Kingdom recollected WILLIAM PITT ROOT's first five books. It was preceded by Faultdancing, written on the Mendoccino coast near the San Andreas fault. Work more recent appears in The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Ploughshares, Rattapallax, Turnrow, and thedrunkenboat.com and in anthologies such as Howling for the Wolves (2005), Kindled Terraces: American Poets in Greece (2004), and Stories from Where We Live (2003). William Pitt Root has been US/UK Exchange Artist (London & Cornwall), Fellow of the Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations, Stanford University, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Translated into nearly 20 languages, his poems have been broadcast over Radio Free Europe. For years Root commuted weekly from Tucson (where he was poet laureate 1997-2002) to teach in the writing program at Hunter College in Manhattan. He and his wife, poet Pamela Uschuk, now live with a cadre of animal companions in the Rockies in western Colorado near the vast Weminuche Wilderness.