"The God of Material Things" gives you new eyes and ears to fall in love with God's birds (including crows), juicy watermelons, and the punch of crab tree blossoms' fragrance in your face come May. "Mother's Songs" is an exquisitely tender threnody which makes one sigh, happily.David Schelhaas shows poetic perception like that of William Carlos Williams, but here the concrete detail caught in limpid language and the delicate grit of the measured lines brims with joyfulness. This is poetry for novice and seasoned reader to grow on and revel in.-Calvin G. Seerveld, emeritus, Institute for Christian Studies