Crafted and assembled nearly forty years ago, the verses in this collection chronicle an earlier time in the author's life as well as an earlier - and in some ways, foundational - poetic. A poetic, as e. e. cummings suggests, that is more a way of seeing things that saying things. While the settings for the poems shift between continents - America, England, and France - the perspective, the way of seeing things, is undeniably that of the foreigner, the tourist, the disoriented - and yet somehow stewarded - young scholar.