This new collection is a departure for the acclaimed Irish Poet -- a visionary work written out of the body, and out of the shadowlands between life and death. The day after major heart surgery Kennelly was visited by a man made of rain: "He was actually raining, all his parts were raining slantwise. He spoke to me and took me on journeys." This booklong poem takes the poet to his father"s grave and inside his bones, to the land of no-language, provinces of history and memory, the place of cold, true cold. It"s an extraordinary voyage by one of Ireland"s leading poets. This is the first Bloodaxe title to be published simultaneously on tape (107 minutes) as well as book.