Exploring the will to survive the existential disorientation and emotional loss resulting from fractured relationships with lovers and kin.
In lush imagery of earth, sea, sky, flora and fauna, am-phib-ian traces a daughter's odyssey--through a web fractured relationships with both lovers and kin, experiences the poet calls a "physics of cruelty"--and through the flux of accompanying existential questions concerning personal identity. This collection is also the story of a spirit determined to survive the journey--appropriating in the effort whatever available tools and attributes--human or amphibian.