To Live on This Earth

Poetry. "In Ken Waldman's TO LIVE ON THIS EARTH, there are poems of praise for people and places the poet has known, poems about the life of the musician and the places of traditional music in communities, poems of personal longing, and poems of prayer. The book is something like a quilt.Many of the political poems are driven by fury, maybe despair. Rather than speaking mildly and reasonably so as to be inoffensive, the poet offers his personal, immediate truth"-David Romtvedt