Redgrove -- poet, novelist, playwright, analytical psychologist, and "scientist of the strange" is little known in the U.S. Here is intriguing short fiction, distilled by one of England"s most respected mainstream poets whose award-winning work has been highly praised by critics. Here, Redgrove begins with short fictions, but gradually withdraws the narrative scaffolding to which readers are accustomed, and asks that they respond instead to an alternative and more dramatic pattern of imagery.