The moving poetry of Frank Asch and the majestic photography of Ted Levin celebrate the landscape and inhabitants of four North American deserts -- the Sonoran, the Mojave, the Great Basin, and the Chihuahuan. Facts and feelings interweave disclosing the humor and secrets of the flora and fauna in the timeless beauty and sun-scorched vistas of the desert setting. Poems such as "Magic Rocks" evokes the mystery of the prehistoric humans who had scratched symbolic petroglyphs into the desert rocks, "Waterless Shores" describes the gathering of life to the desert flower to feed, while other poems each present, sometimes with humor, the animals that inhabit the desert landscape -- the coyote, bobcat, desert tortoise, lizard, Gila monster, cottontail, rattlesnake, leaf-cutter ant, hummingbird and roadrunner. The nineteen desert poems include: "Breaks Free", "Water Secret", "Waterless Shores", "The Oldest", "Bobcat Watching", "Slow and Steady", "Howl", "Lizards in Love", "Magic Rocks", "Shy Monster", "Cottontail", "The Rattler", "Be Careful", "Two Rains", "If I Were an Ant", "Saguaro", "Hummingbird Song", "Roadrunner" and "If the Earth Were Small". Factual information about the subject of each poem is provided at the end of the book.