The inventory of a poet's life, 'drafted in a language of rare elegance, sensitivity, and precision, ' writes John Taylor. The author of 'Screeds' meditates in this new collection on aging, self-acceptance - and acceptance in a more comprehensive sense that bears on us all. This is a work of reminiscence and appraisal, a mirror held up to one man's life at an angle that reveals something about us all. This is Stephen Wiest's second collection published by Odd Volumes/The Fortnightly Review