The inspiration for most of the poems in Autumn Grasses was a daily engagement calendar that features the art of Japan--screens, hanging scrolls, painted silks, wood-block prints. In the dynamic stillness of this new visual field, Margaret Gibson steps away from the merely personal--"No one's home"--to write poems that dip and swoop with the unguarded ease of birds in flight, verse as fluid and seamless as the movement of day to night, season...