Written between June 1, 1991 and January 31, 1992 the poems of this volume employed the letters of Henry James as a source in order to explore the poetics of narrative, sound as thought and the shape of words as meaning. The series of poems functions almost as a poem-as-novel investigating the phenomena of poetic sound, of the sounds we hear, those we don't, the meanings that those sounds do or do not convey, and the lyricism of poetry - where what we hear is often blurred, misunderstood, and confused as in everyday experience.