books.google.com - "To read East Wind Melts the Ice is to slip into a time stream that is both as long and sinuous as history and as ephemeral as the present moment. Drawing inspiration from the thousand year old history of Japanese poetic diaries, and form from the ancient Chinese almanac that she uses to contain her...http://books.google.com/books/about/East_Wind_Melts_the_Ice.html?id=VBR6h5tZ9toC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareEast Wind Melts the Ice