Of Wanting and Rain is a collection of over one hundred and sixty love poems spanning three years of work by poet Paul Hina. In his follow-up to 2007's Such Deliberate Loveliness, Hina continues to explore the richness of man's desire using playful imagery and unique, impressionistic language.The gateway has been shut and broken for hundreds of years. A fired apprentice, a local witch, bookseller, the witch of the mountain and a native witch attempt to re-open it before the apprentice dies trying to.