First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Contents:
Introduction: Strange Resistances
1. Thomas Hardy: The Broken Lyre
2. Wallace Stevens: A Foreign Song
3. Philip Larkin: Rather than Words
4. Sylvia Plath: The Stars' Dark Address
5. Louise Glück: I was Here
6. Conclusion: Other Ends of the Mind

The death of Jessica Burke was easy to explain: a history of depression, a heroin habit, a girl alone in her bathtub. But when her psychoanalyst, Daniel Abend, receives an ominous, handwritten poem, he quickly realizes that this was not just an overdose. As a second and third missive arrive from the same mysterious source, and his daughter abruptly disappears, Daniel finds himself the subject of an elaborate and calculated torment, one that reaches back decades, crosses oceans, and begins with a chance encounter with a beguiling girl in a Paris stairwell.

With richly layered, masterful prose, DeSales Harrison has constructed a brilliantly choreographed and spellbinding tale of desperate fathers, stolen daughters, and the distance we travel for revenge and absolution.