The Njombe Road New Release In poems rapturous and drenched

In poems rapturous and drenched in vivid imagery

and the last section ("The Mind at Play") continues with a rich lyric and imagery often sung from a mystic sensibility

and desire on both personal and planetary scales

toward a vanishing point

offers his superb versions (or 'visions' as he calls them) of Tao Yuan Ming's seminal Twenty Poems After Drinking Wine as well as a sequence of delicate "harmonizing" poems-before the book concludes with its title section

The Njombe Road New Release In poems rapturous and drenchedDecades old letters to home now transformed into memoir, The Njombe Road spans the breadth of Mary Jo McMillins journey in East Africa from 1963 to 1965. Her travels and experience throughout the continent would ignite what would become a lifelong love of cooking. As a teacher and as a cook, all her senses would take in and absorb the flavors of locality, the strains of multiculturalism, and the traditions and harsh legacy of colonialism. Along the