" Adamantine bristles with taut, startling language that continues to yield surprises even after readers realize that they are at serious play within the fields of the human heart, a realm in which 'we must know when to give in.'"–Carolyne Wright "How wise of her to know that what is adamantine is the open heart. Fearless seeing, ancient mutterings on contemporary pathways and boulevards, inventive poetics, merciless memories and tender, knowing hands all take their proper place here."—Peter Levitt Shin Yu Pai is the author of several collections including Sightings: Selected Works and Equivalence . Shin Yu Pai: Shin Yu Pai is the author of several poetry collections including Haiku Not Bombs (Booklyn Artists Alliance), Works on Paper (Convivio Bookworks), Sightings: Selected Works (1913 Press), The Love Hotel Poems (Press Lorentz), Unnecessary Roughness (xPress(ed)), Equivalence (La Alameda), and Ten Thousand Miles of Mountains and Rivers (Third Ear Books). She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and studied at Naropa University. She is assistant curator for The Wittliff Collections. Used Book in Good Condition