The author's training as a geologist influences the themes and
forms of the poems and the single essay in this book. Often his
poetic forms are determined by rock characteristics, even when the
concerns of the poem are intensely human. For instance, a poem
about a set of perceived relationships at twilight from the Crystal
section titled "yellow quartz" breaks into six lines and references
the passage of light because quartz crystals are pellucid and
hexagonal. In another sequence, "Line of Descent," sharply shifting
lines of poetry enact the cutbacks and bends of the path into the
Grand Canyon by which father and son descend through lines of
sediment and lines of story along the bloodline that ties them
together. Without calling attention to themselves, such forms
underpin the strong emotional terrain upon which all the poems,
whether focused on erotic love, fatherhood, the histories of
empire, or the dialogue between scientific rationalism and poetic
imagination, are situated. With an eye toward what we stand on
literally, Gander concentrates our attention toward what we stand
on and for in our various relationships with others and with the
world
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