"Sufficiency, or The Recompense of Sunshine" is a collection of 64 poems written by award-winning poet Elizabeth Anne Socolow over the course of two years during which she underwent treatment for ovarian cancer. Section I, "All Around Me," includes "The Stuff of Life, A Table of Contents," "Umbrella Song" and "Witness of an Optimist in Total Concentration"; Section II is entitled "The Comfort of Queen Cynwid, King Lear's Wife, Deposed, Alone, in a Room on Goneril's Estate"; and Section III, "Deep Inside Me," contains "The Comfort of Losing Track of Time" and "The Discomfort of Fruitcake and the Moral Life."