[1] The book tackles Asian American identity, art criticism, and other issues with Yau's characteristic playfulness and experimentation with language.

When asked about how he thought about his participation in both literary and art worlds, Yau told the Los Angeles Review of Books: "An artist’s job is to be open to experimenting and trying everything—trying new mediums, new materials.

In addition to taking on Klein's sensibilities, Yau also involves Emily Dickinson, Jackson Pollock, Rainer Maria Rilke, Charles Baudelaire, and other poets and artists into his long-form poem.

John James in Rain Taxi considered the book's title an irony insofar as "the work is colored by the various objects and voices inhabiting it—nothing feels single-hued here."

For readers of Yau’s work, this is not an unfamiliar theme; his poetry is split between his backgrounds as Chinese and American, poet and art critic, lamenter and humorist.