The Literary House Press at Washington College publishes a range of general interest books and scholarly monographs. Its publications present literary, scientific, historic, journalistic, environmental, and public policy writings of the Chesapeake Bay region. As publisher for Washington College, the press also publishes scholarly monographs written by faculty or taken from lecture series at the college. In addition, Literary House Press publishes works of literary merit without regard to subject or setting. Mary Wood's poetry focuses on life's passages and is heavily influenced by the natural settings of farmland and rivers that make up much of the Eastern Shore. Christopher Tilghman, author of Mason's Retreat and In a Father's Place, wrote in his introduction to this collection of Wood's verse: "With utmost grace and penetrating lyric, this collection of poems takes us to the knife edges of change and balances us beautifully between the sadness that attends every death and the joys of continual rebirth."