Winner of the 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry.
The first warning passing through Thebes-- As small a sound As a housefly alighting from Persia And stamping its foot on a mound Where the palace once was
As small a moth chewing thread In the tyrant\'s robe
As small as the cresting of red In the rim of an injured eye; as small As the sound of a human conceived A.
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2000.
Winner of the 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry