Saying the Necessary

Poetry. The poems in this volume focus on lifes essentials childhood therhythms of family love for those who are dearest. These themes stand inopposition often ... » 

Poetry. The poems in this volume focus on lifes essentials childhood therhythms of family love for those who are dearest. These themes stand inopposition often within the same poem to the darker edges of growing up thequirks and burdens of history and the violence of our times whose horrors arenearer than we want to believe. Other recurring motifs include the ephemeralnature of time and memory and the inevitability of loss. Poetry for EdwardHarkness acts as a counterforce against these natural tendencies againstoblivion. «