<p>An evocative meditation on destruction and creation the sacred and ephemeral along Louisiana&#39;s coast. In poems that bear witness to the eroding bayou country and its Cajun culture Martha Serpas venerates a vanishing landscape defined by water--sensuous fecund and destructive. As marsh turns into gulf identity and consciousness are transformed as well. Serpas&#39;s verses invest paradox with her own defiantly spiritual meaning.</p>