Cynthia Anderson’sArrivalmight seem like a departure for readers who follow her work. She is a desert poet who often works in short form. InFull Circle, one of her previous books for example, she wrote image-driven haiku that helped to illuminate moments that make desert life exceptional.Arrivalis an exploration of many different landscapes, coastal, forest, desert, and more, is a beautiful exploration through longer forms of free verse poetry, which she has written before, and I am glad to see her writing this kind of work. These longer forms, however, have certainly been informed and gained power from her short work. Each of the stanzas and even many lines might have functioned as its own poem if she had gone in that direction again; however, together they build and work toward a greater unified whole that has us understanding the natural world and our place…