Things happen in Tony Whedon's new book of poems on a remote cluster of wind-battered islands in the South Atlantic, in a Nova Scotia fishing town, or on a misguided sailing trip to Cuba. In these narrative poems, people make love, fall in love and fall apart: hounded by memory, they flee to farther-off places, but can't avoid the past. This double-barreled narrative brings together the geographical and spiritual antipodes in an interplay of formal and free verse that is poignant and purposeful.