waterShedBooks, Toronto, 1998, believe 1st.  ISBN 1-894205-02-2.  Trade size soft cover, 79 pages including Author’s Notes, Acknowledgements, and About the Author.  Wraps show light edge and cover wear, small ding at top front spine edge, light toning/soil to white wraps; small coffee(?) drop and touch of soil at lower fore-edge corner.  Binding tight.  Inscribed and signed by author to prior owner on half-title page; remainder of interior clean and unmarked.  Cover art from a lino cut by Paula Tiberius.  ‘Through Ophelia and other personae (mother, artists, daughter, lover, war refugee) Merike Lugus explores questions of identity and survival.  In tracing the hard process of reckoning with life’s losses, these poems achieve a kind of radiance.  Over and over they show how life is saved through acts of observation:  Noticing “how things hinge together / how wings fold”; and creation: the making of a garden, of friends, and of one’s art.  In this her first collection of poems, painter and sculptor Merike Lugus speaks with passion, lyricism, and poetic authority.’ (from rear wrap)