"In a shimmering phenomenology of body, spirit, and soul, The Right Hand resides at a tender junction of nerve and bone, 'a nexus: metropolitan.' In her radiant collection, Christina Pugh's astute eye illumninates Maya Lin's lovely river of pins, St. Teresa of Avila with an angel, and wonders such as a 'sea of porphyry.' A mystical cartography of the senses, Pugh's earthbound threshold of the human resonates with our longing for God and the eternal, mapping a basil leaf juxtaposed to a basilica, displaying 'the flash of a neural jewel,' or glowing with 'this notion / of change carved in marble / unfettering the seam / between watcher / and creator.' " -- Karen An-hwei Le