The opening piece refers to "harp and altar, of the fury fused" before asking "How could mere toil align thy choiring strings?
In one work in this collection, the author remembers that "behind my father's cannery works, I used to see rail-squatters ranged in nomad raillery." A study of this work by L.S. Dembo is titled for the author's "Sanskrit Charge." The opening piece refers to "harp and altar, of the fury fused" before asking "How could mere toil align thy choiring strings?" The question "Whose head is swinging from the swollen strap?" in this work is prompted by a ride from Columbus Circle. A river "tortured with history" is described in the section on "Powhatan's Daughter," while San Luis de Angel and Juan Perez are addressed by Columbus in "Ave Maria." Composed of fifteen sections including Cape Hatteras, Quaker Hill and The Tunnel, FTP, name this long poem which opens with an invocation to a Brooklyn landmark, a work by Hart Crane.
In one work in this collection, the author remembers that "behind my father's cannery works, I used to see rail-squatters ranged in nomad raillery.
The {Bridge}