Roger Mitchell is the author of 12 previous books of poetry.

"'All around us forgotten knowledge stirs, ' writes Roger Mitchell in this soulful collection that reads like Basho's The Narrow Road for the Hudson River watershed. We're riding shotgun, meandering from the Adirondacks to Manhattan and back, meeting funky neighbors and bobcats and the ghosts of the poet's past along the way. Mitchell offers the long view at every turn, measuring time in collapsing barns and 'the wailing of nails drawn slowly out of the barns body.' For as long as I've been a poet, Roger Mitchell has been my guide. I'd follow him anywhere."
--Dobby Gibson