Book of Motion

Tung-Hui Hu. University of Georgia Press, $16.95 (64pp) ISBN 978-0-8203-2568-2

A winner of the Avery Hopwood Award, The Book of Motion by UC Berkeley doctoral candidate in architecture Tung-Hui Hu offers nearly 30 lyrics (on everything from ""Vigilance"" to ""Pseudoephedrine"") and a set of 12 prose ""Elegies for Self"": ""Most people ignored me or indulged me until I bought their vacant, bone-rimmed cups of coffee.""

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