A career-spanning volume drawn from forty years of work and a selection of new poems.
Stephen Corey-s work is intelligent, moving and engaging. Poem after poem is beautiful, effortless, and thought-provoking. The range of style and subject matter, the depth of thought and emotion, the elegance and resonance and simplicity of language, the affectionate voice and tone-all work to make this a truly important and memorable book.
-Here is a life, and a life, and / a life,- Stephen Corey writes in the opening poem-s instructions to on how find the faded leaf-also a metaphor for the end of life-that one must imagine still colored after he is -gone.- The poem is echoed near the end of this stunningly rich and encompassing book in a poem addressed to his four daughters about what he has missed during his life. In between we encounter a world we thought we knew but have not seen in this way before: things as varied as Monarch butterflies, telephones, calligraphy
