Gary Hyland's stature as a writer derives from his distinctive ability to articulate the cadence of the lives, as well as the speech, or small-town characters.
With After Atlantis Hyland branches out to demonstrate a growing maturity of vision and stake new poetic claims. The book's six sections explore different territories in different ways: masculine anxieties, broken lives, impediments to love, artistic issues, the unearthly, and the mythic.