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The volume is divided into two sections: Sonnets and Verse Variations. 'In my sonnets, I give voice in many poems to diverse people in our society-from gardeners to garbage men, from hairdressers to politicians, ' Graham said. 'In this sense, it's social poetry, because it reveals a slice of culture that's often ignored, both in real life and in artistic expression. The Verse Variations section is more personal in that it contains reflections on various stunning places of natural beauty that I've had the chance to visit-from Machu Picchu to Easter Island to Mont Blanc to Iceland and Newfoundland. Nature is a recurrent inspiration for these poems. I hope that whomever reads this volume will find, to invoke Robert Frost, that the poems 'begin in delight and end in wisdom.''