A Local Habitation" explores the impact of place, history and blood on a sensibility painfully aware that it stands almost alone in the twilight of a great tradition. Embracing the rhyme and longestablished forms from past eras, poet Seabrook Wilkinson plumbs the depths of personal and collective history, which he uses to investigate the emotional landscapes of his native South Carolina Lowcountry, Scotland, Key West and the mountains of North Carolina.