Great Regulars: The Ginkgo Light is an ambitious work.

The first word, "corpses" (p. 5), taken from the long opening poem, "Chrysalis" with its come-hither hint of transformation, finds its complement in "living," the book's last word, from "After Completion" (p. 9), a reference to the second last hexagram of the I Ching. In between, "each hour teems," from the eponymous poem, "The Ginkgo Light" (p. 20). As in the I Ching, whose final hexagram is "Before Completion," the poems suggest a circle, accessible at any given point.

from Powells: Review-A-Day: Circumscribing Here

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