"In new poems and old, Sweet Confluence turns and returns to themes of art, music, landscape, and family." "The twenty new poems resume Ludvigson's Wisconsin motif - the cradle of her experience and consciousness - and use Old World European imagery, her mother's death from Alzheimer's, and a southern palette of sight, scent, and sound to explore the fluidly interconnected states of being: memory, emotion, sleep, thought, and sensation, among others."--BOOK JACKET.