This book's title sounds evocative echoes: In “The Circus Animals' Desertion,” a late work, W. B. Yeats located poetry's humble origins in “the foul rag and bone shop of the heart.” Early in “The Waste Land,” T. S. Eliot censured April as “the cruelest month,” bringing “spring rain,” nature's reawakening, and thereby stirring “memory and desire.” Analysts will recognize too another echo, Bion's advice to listen without “memory or desire,” to enable both patient and analyst to be fully present in the moment. These echoes don't blend easily; but they do suggest central and