Winner of the 15th annual Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize Selected from more than 900 manu-scripts, this collection possesses unusual thematic coherence and intimacy. Many poems are set in the author's-native China. They explore family history and dynamics set against the oppressive Cultural Revolution.Yun Wang, born in a small town in Southwest China in 1964, came to the U.S. to study physics in 1985. She is an assistant professor specializing in theoretical cosmology at the University of Oklahoma. This is her first full-length collection.