Owen Fortunato Brakspear's "water year" is a fluid medium in which sacral and secular liturgies refract and distend to a capacious poetic ethics. The eustatic music washes across the book's ostensibly formal divisions, figuring each poetic shoreline as a wistful vantage from which "the human" might be reclaimed or reimagined. An appropriately rich and 'eudaimonic' first entry to Brakspear's ambitious "eu-" project.