This is a book to satisfy those who seek poetry from outside our familiar culture with all its assumptions and wants. Lake Angela brings a modern sensibility to her writing while drawing on the medieval way image and symbolism unite. Facing human issues common to all eras she has a ruthless mysticism and is unafraid to think in terms of the soul's struggle to survive. She is equally secure at the social fringe with its asylums and hospital wards, venturing to those for whom being understood is the first step to being healed. Scivias Choreomaniae is proof that the age of visions is still with us.