Bold Type's Poetry Editor Ernest Hilbert writes "Ondaatje knows well the ways of devotion, be they to family, religion, or custom, that sustain cultures, and he uses them to articulate a vision both fertile and honest. This richly exotic collection is a fine expression of Ondaatje's ability to balance language delicately against the precarious shiftings of history that create worlds within worlds."

Read a review and a poem by Michael Ondaatje.