Contains poems with titles such as ""Illustrating the Theory of Interference"" and ""Illustrating the Construction of Railroads"". This book also features nineteenth-century engravings depicting phenomena from geology to astronomy to mechanics.

JOSHUA POTEAT won the 2004 Anhinga Poetry Prize for his first book, Ornithologies, and his chapbook, Meditations, won the Poetry Society of America's 2004 National Chapbook Award. He has received awards from American Literary Review, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and the Arts, Nebraska Review, and River City.