Poems—many of them love poems of sorts to his wife Caryl, but also poems that explore socio-political issues without hammering you over the head with rhetoric. In his intro, he writes: “The task increasingly becomes to remain open to the voices that appear in the contradictions of trying to lead a decent life while being a whilte American male, and even if poor by current American standards, living with the conveniences that only 1 percent of the world population enjoys.”