Re-Sounding contains 126 poems, though it takes some doing to figure that out: the table of contents is formatted eccentrically and lacks page numbers. Enslin is at least as concerned with sound as with discursive content, and a number of poems amount to dazzling orchestrations of echoes; consider "Trade Off," which begins, "Winds     trade winds     and how they trade / the trading of the heat for water     always trading / one tern to tern     again the flight     a turning trade." Other poems are brief lessons, such as the extraordinary meditation beginning, "To be of one place as another / is forbidden." Enslin's syntax is often both sinuous and halting, and his punctuation is erratic; once in a while a poem apparently intended to make a statement ends up as a puzzle. That said, one should hesitate before dismissing anything here: like all good poems, these demand to be felt out, rehearsed, and inhabited to be appreciated. There are a few people who will give poems such as these the chance they deserve, but only a few.

To be of one place as another
is forbidden       not by law or ritual
it is of the kind and species.
Only at the time of its uprooting
will a tree sense something of its roots
no longer dark and secret
in a parent loam.