Always light-gathering, these Poems move back and forth among the places that have been essential to the poet\'s life--New Mexico and the southwest, old Roman vestiges in northern Italy, a longtime home next to a synagogue in northern California, the color-drenched French countryside of artist Pierre Bonnard.
As traveler, word-peddler, and celebrant of joie de vivre,.
The magic of the title is carried by spices and pigments, water and birds, bright strings of turquoise and branches of pine.
Always light-gathering, these Poems move back and forth among the places that have been essential to the poet\'s life--New Mexico and the southwest, old Roman vestiges in northern Italy, a longtime home next to a synagogue in northern California, the color-drenched French countryside of artist Pierre Bonnard
