""Hooray for a writer who can weave presence and absence, longing and loss of longing, into a tapestry of language as rich, honest, and compelling as this."-Naomi Shihab Nye"Landau registers the intensities of the flesh: pleasure, desire, limitation, and, ultimately, disappearance."-Mark DotyIt is "always nighttime" in Deborah Landau's second collection-a series of linked lyric sequences, including insomniac epistolary love poems to an elusive "someone."