Hypnotic and provocative by turns, SHADOW PLAY retraces a journey across Asia in search of the marriage that faltered in its wake. Part love poem, part elegy, Jody Bolz"s new book enacts the conflict between memory and estrangement. In his introduction, novelist Vikram Chandra writes: "an extraordinary act of literary ventriloquism...a conversation among the many selves that were once bound up in love. The poem, in all its formal inventiveness and variety, is an incarnation of the ineluctable passage of time itself." "SHADOW PLAY explores a failed early marriage in an altogether original way, combining the momentum of memoir with the music of poetry. This book is lush with landscape and with psychological insight. "What sense will you make of the heart"s slow progress...?" Bolz asks, even as she shows us the answer."--Linda Pastan "Here, finally, is a travel poem worth the ticket. Had it been written just after the trip occurred, we would have gotten the sights but none of the light...