The poems collected in this text were inspired by the author's ten-year study of the I Ching. Each of its 64 poems reflects on one of the I Ching's 64 hexagrams, and incorporates a situation or feeling explored in each hexagram's commentary.

Each of the poems connects with one of the 64 hexagrams in this ancient and popular Chinese oracular text, revealing how the author's emotions and experiences mirror, or complicate, the traditional meaning of each divination.