Innerland: A journey through the everyday landscape of New Zealand John Ashbery and isn't much good for

and isn't much good for anything except watching human beings in action…" —The New Yorker

including Antonio Gades

world-renowned New Zealand photographer

Some years ago

and plays out with her best friend

Innerland: A journey through the everyday landscape of New Zealand John Ashbery and isn't much good forAmongst the hard, physical landscape, the rational landscape of the geologist, ecologist, and cartographer, there lies the more elusive, but no less real, soft landscape of the poet, psychologist, and artist. This soft landscape is, for the most part, a fabrication of our minds; a fabrication so ingrained in us that it has become a language we understand without ever appearing to have formally learned it. Combining essay and memoir, Matt Vance takes