"The sea dreams it is the sky examines life in a South American dictatorship. Centered on the journal of a poet-in-exile and his failed attempts at translating a maddening text, it is told by a young woman trying to come to grips with a country that nearly devoured itself. In My heart struck sorrow, a librarian discovers a recording from the Deep South -- which may be the musical stylings of the Devil himself. A terrifying and exhilarating journey into the darkness, an odyssey into the deepest reaches of ourselves that compels us to confront secrets best left hidden"-- Adapted from page [2] of cover.