Author Description

Poetry. The poet is placing himself-and us-in the immediate moment, but as part of the cycle that contains childhood, previous generations, history and evolution. In the book's final line, when we are sent to find our own way home, we are not simply finding our place in the word, but our moment in time. These poems grow as I read them, and my sense of possibility grows as well-simple moments open to eternity, and the past is never far away.-John P. Loonam