"Leylines of my Flesh", Vivian Hansen's first book-length collection of poetry, is a lyrical and strong-lined evocation of immigrant life on the Canadian prairies. Throughout four linked sections of primarily short, lyric poems, Hansen traces the leylines, the "straight tracks of our ancestors that mark our position and direction via landmarks" (p. 9), that link her to the history and myth of her Danish forebears and immigrant family members.