"The collection presents Swensen's own "walk-about" poetic excursions alongside her sequential micro-essays on writers who also wrote about walking, forming an overlay of literary gems on this topic. Ending with a bibliography of allusions in the collection--essayists, novelists, philosophers, architects, and cultural critics who once published on the topics of psychogeography and wandering, whether urban or rural--the book's overall effect is kaleidoscopic yet coherent in its lucid typologies of walking, indicative of a poet's intuition for an eclecticism beyond the avenues of persuasion that a philosopher might pursue on a similar theme.".