I most admired about this book its two long poetic sequences, "A Genealogy of the Father" and "Ars Amatoria: So You Want to Marry a Foreign National." The first sequence's mapping of change through the father's life in a nonlinear fashion set up a certain formal expectation for the later sequence--an expectation which was stunningly subverted by the fragments in "Ars Amatoria." 
 The poems written in the persona of Frederico Garcia Lorca are also striking, as is Candito's ability to use repetition to create moments of alignment and disjunction among and within poems. That repetition, combined with the book's exploration of relations and borders, creates cycles in which the poems lulled me into a kind of fretful dreaming and then shook me awake, startled, over and over.