A collection of essays analyzing the works of Kristjana Gunnars.

Introduction: reading Kristjana Gunnars ;Biography of Kristjana Gunnars ; "A moving-on into the unknown": interview with Kristjana Gunnars / Monique Tschofen -- Troll turning: poetic voice in the poetry of Kristjana Gunnars / M. Travis Lane -- "Drawing/in": wholeness and dislocation in the work of Kristjana Gunnars / Judith Owens -- The Prowler / Janice Kulik Keefer -- Carnival of Longing: estranging the lyric / Deidre Lynch -- Away from zero / Stephen Scobie -- The trace of the translator in The Prowler and Zero Hour / Anne Malena -- Narratives of place in Kristjana Gunnars's The Rose Garden: Reading Marcel Proust / Siobhan O'Flynn -- From "variations on Kristjana Gunnars's Rose Garden" / K.I. Press -- Culture and gender in Kristjana Gunnars's writing / Christl Verduyn -- "With a ruse of heart and language": the movement of thought in Kristjana Gunnars's writing / Criticla bibliography / Monique Tschofen.