Poems and Pieces: A Celebration of Life: A Celebration of Life

The poems and pieces in this book were all written to celebrate or memorialize some specific occasion or event - a wedding, a birthday, a friend's death, a trip to a pristine sea island on the Georgia coast, rafting down a river in Alaska, a hike in Ireland, etc. They owe an obvious debt to the Romantic poets, most notably William Wordsworth, and their sense of the unity of the human and natural worlds. The book is an enthusiastic celebration of life, often tempered with humor and occasional hyperbole.