<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>At once a love song and a dirge to a landscape being swallowed by the waters that define it.--<em>St. Petersburg Times</em><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>An evocative meditation on destruction and creation, the sacred and ephemeral, along Louisiana's coast. In poems that bear witness to the eroding bayou country and its Cajun culture, Martha Serpas venerates a vanishing landscape defined by water--sensuous, fecund, and destructive. As marsh turns into gulf, identity and consciousness are transformed as well. Serpas's verses invest paradox with her own defiantly spiritual meaning.