"A third of the way into "The Book of a Thousand Eyes" comes the question, "Isn't sleep fitted to this world?" And the easy answer–abundantly Yes–both masks and unveils the bigger shape. (As the Earl of Anglesey noted, "To this Rhetorical Question the Commons pray they may Answer by another Question.") The devil's in the details every night, all night. Lyn Hejinian knows that familiarity breeds the predictable but she knows as well that–and how–"contact produces uncertainty." So this is a brilliantly uncertain book, a book of practical and fantastic connection, connection as multiple and as hopeless as love might be, connection as big and leggy as the night is long. Here, the old bifurcations and faultless authorities are broken down into a continuous waking hour. Waking?–owl-like, magnificent, traveling. Continuous?–"Our sleep has no conclusion." This book is night itself." –C. S. Giscombe, author, "Prairie Style"
