Cathy Song's poems are bouquets to those moments in life that seemed minor but in retrospect count the most, Richard Hugo said of the poet's first book. She accommodates experiential extremes with a sensibility strengthened by patience that is centuries old, ancestral, tribal, a gift passed down. Song works to capture the events and characters in the manner of a skilled and sensitive photographer.Poignant visions of childhood, the family, and moments of perception that become 'a study of small pleasures' to be recalled and savored.