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.
