This award-winning debut from a young, talented poet and Iowa Writers' Workshop graduate addresses all things photography--from its history to the necessity of light and white space (captured in the very look of these poems), and from the thrills of technology to the way we discuss and caption photographs, and the ways photography, in turn, captures and changes the world. In the largest sense, O'Brien's poems question the reality in illusion and the dichotomies of sight and blindness, finding new ways to create visual narratives. Like all National Poetry Series winners, this collection should receive considerable critical attention and will be of special interest to readers who are also engaged with the visual arts.