"Adamah shows a deepening of Hooker's earlier preoccupations. Exploring 'ground' in the material and metaphysical senses, as nature, historical place, and ultimate reality, it is a profound questioning of the 'human'. The collection ... contains major sequences, including a new collaboration with the sculptor Lee Grandjean, a group of poems commemorating the lives of Hooker's parents and his eldest brother, and the revised text of his poem for radio, Landscape of childhood"--Page 4 of cover.