What Water Does at a Time Like This

Whether figurative or down to earth Joseph Greens diction is apt. And his imagination ranges over the slope behind [his] house a garden in Marrakech little sparkles in the infinite dark and-it would seem-all the spots along the way. If Green does anything better than making routine seem magical it is making the extraordinary appear commonplace. Or maybe its the other way around. Either way What Water Does at a Time Like This is a wise and beautiful book.-- Knute Skinner