A book of lamentation and a book of praise, a field guide to lost corners in their American ubiquity, and a sustained encounter with the sorrow that American civilization shelters within itself: a dialogue of aftermaths and reckonings. Its tasks are poetical, to track the Unknown American over its vast continent, a fugitive figure of collective ancestry, lasting in transience, defiant in gentleness. The book combines contemplative large-format photographs made across the United States between 2014 and 2022, marooned vernacular photographs collected along the journeys, and poems by Alexander Nemerov written in response to the photographs and sewn into the sequence as mini chapbooks. It concludes with a lyric essay on the work’s genesis and aims.