Poetry. In this winner of the 2000 Hayden Carruth Award, Rebecca Wee creates a poetic mosaic in which individual pieces and fragments both inform and distort the wholes (lines, images, poems, the book itself) which they create. Lyrical, moody, diffuse, these poems mine tension and explore the artist's impulse to make beautiful art out of terrible human suffering, to give voice to those not in a position to speak for themselves. These are emotional poems -- each briskly draws our attention to reality and takes us on an arduous journey -- Jane Miller, Judge of the 2000 Hayden Carruth Award