Poetry. Asian American Studies. A ground-breaking piece of work--a tour de force--a much-awaited book after the highly acclaimed Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems--poems which won him the Hawthornden Fellowship in the UK and a nomination for a Pushcart Prize in the USA. Sen's writing here is crisp and tightly wrought, the pacing swift and cadenced, and the mood desirous. This new book challenges the essential act of myth making and the tradition of 'genre' in literature--this being at the same time a narrative poem, a novella, or even a minimalist novel at its sparest best. "A brand-new heaven over outlandish earth"--Joseph Brodsky.