A collection of poems about London which is suitable for: the student abroad for a semester, the armchair traveler, or the critical reader of poetry. It conveys a sense that London is a place of exile and transplantation, a protean site of history, projection, culture, and personal drama.

Lisa Russ Spaar is an Associate Professor of English and Director of the Area Program in Poetry Writing at the University of Virginia. She has also been an instructor for the University of Virginia Culture of London Summer Program at Regents College. She is the editor of the anthology Acquainted with the Night: Insomnia Poems and the author of several books of poetry, including Blue Venus and the forthcoming Satin Cash.