The manuscript for this book won the 2012 Poetry Chapbook Competition at the Center for Book Arts, judged by Phillis Levin and Sharon Dolin.

The book contains the poems "Human Field," "Seven Psalms," "Self Portrait as Bronze," "Blood Memory," "Songs for the Boisterous Month," "To Certain Students," "Suspect," "Where the Arrows Fell," "Famously Beautiful City," and "Postscript."

Letterpress printed and bound at the Swamp Press in an edition of 100. Linocuts by Barbara Henry of the Harsimus Press.