America 1970. A classic intellectually minded assimilated Jew--Socialist Party at 18, Dostoyevskian alien at 20, Kafkaesque shadow at 23-- connects with Judaism and the Talmud. He starts over again in the Jewish religious community, marries, raises children, and grows old. The poems were written over a twelve year period, picking up the story after marriage. They reflect the predilections and predicaments of an individual nature trying to create a new world within himself and his family.