A collection of poems spanning the period from the 1940's to the present day. Conventional enough to rhyme 'Rhythms Of An Impenitent Life' is an observational study of the authors singular but unorthodox existance and his continuing struggle with the inner self. From childhood confusion to the safe haven of a happy marriage the poems chronicle aspects of the human condition and range variously from pathos to humour and from wanton desire to the gentle homecoming of absolute affection.