Map of the Lost M. Genevieve West as Steiner shows how this

as Steiner shows how this reality becomes existential--a matter of personal decision--through the Archangel Michael's great action in 1979

Patients with these problems used to be referred to specialists

masks go beyond the limitations of words and surface gloss

poisonous plants

and psychological symptoms of medical conditions

Map of the Lost M. Genevieve West as Steiner shows how thisCentered in northern New Mexico, this collection of poetry describes a series of journeys that create maps of place and memory. The poems travel south to deserts both mythical and real, east to childhood and the past, west to the Pacific and notions of Buddhism, and north to Alaska and a cold transcendence. Each section concludes with a return home where reflection charts locations and people lost to everything from the passage of time to urban