Collected here are poems from Peter Oresick's previous books, beginning with <i>The Story of Glass</i> (1977), and to them are added 36 new poems called <i>Under the Carpathians</i>. His work—known for working class and Catholic themes—probes labor and social history, post-World War II America, Eastern European identity, Eastern Rite Catholicism, and Russian icons and fine art and especially Pittsburgh-born pop art icon Andy Warhol.