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The coming together of here and there, of East and West, is alluded to in the title poem, centred around a plastercast of the Buddha in the poet's garden Rooted in all this betwixt and between  The fourth section is made up of poems that deal with mortality, fragility, the threat of loss and utter absence, as well as poems of joy and transcendence. 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