Drift of the Hunt, and its central personae the Goat-Man, grows from mixed soil, the Appalachian foothills of South Carolina and Georgia; Shamanism and Shinto; Eastern European folk tales; the foundries and steel mills of Western Pennsylvania; the belief that there is a very fine line between humor and horror; and Gary Snyder's admonition that the poet should have one foot in the Paleolithic and one in the present.