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Book SynopsisTalks about the loss of loved ones - whether that loss be through death, a son moving away to college, or simply how people fade from our lives and memories.
Trade Review"As all good poetry does, that of Len Roberts directs one to the inexhaustible potential of human experience as a source of imaginative enlargement, even when that experience is exclusively the author's own. His death last year was a real loss to poetry."--Poetry Salzburg Review
"Autobiography is the mediocre default mode of modern American poetry, yet Roberts, who has mined his dysfunctional family of origin, Catholic schooling, libidinous longings, and other personal tribulations for decades, writes outstanding autobiographical poetry by carefully conjuring the scenes, actions, and sequences of what he reports and letting those details, rather than any stated feelings about them, evoke the reader’s empathy."--
Booklist "When Len Roberts passed away this spring, we lost one of our best narrative poets at the height of his powers."--
Virginia Quarterly Review
