It is as if a storm is approaching. For the moment, however, the sea remains motionless, waiting. The tides that move slowly beneath the taut rhythms of the poetry set the world into motion, allow us to experience what rushes out from each moment while reflecting on the causes and purposes that led us to it. Blizzard of One is divided into four sections that achieve together a strangely comforting music, recapitulating and transforming themes that recur throughout his poetry, the opposing poles of fixity and flux, creation and loss, action and remembrance, but this music is more a succession of sad songs than movements of a string quartet. As in Strand's earlier books, most notably Dark Harbor, there is an atmosphere of changing light and weather that reflect changing perceptions and emotion.
Figures seem to exist in a perpetual twilight, waiting for the fullness of night.