Collection of poems speaks to the values of peacemaking, simple living, and a deep faith. Stafford uncovers the inner workings of life itself, calling forth images celebrating the goodness of God's creation.
Stafford invites us to go deep within to the loneliest and most telling place not for the self-indulgence we get from "glossy magazines," but to arrive at the common experience of finding our own life and the meaning of it.
From his first book, Down in My Heart, to his last, Stafford's poems and prose of experience challenge us to have our own experience. "Now come on in. Dip into these pages. Be kind."
These poems make gentleness imaginable in a time of unimaginable violence - Wendell Berry
