Russell Leong, ‘The Country of Dreams and Dust’ (West End Press, 1993) August 24, 2009: Russell Leong’s The Country of Dreams and Dust is one of those books of poetry I wonder why I read so many years (15, to be exact) after its original publication, and then in many ways I am glad I came to it when I did. I’d recently picked it up used at Half Price Books in Downtown Berkeley for $4.98, and really, I was drawn to it because of [...] by Barbara Jane Reyes