"The poems in this new book by Alan Feldman are personal and autobiographical." "Each of the book's three parts begins with a poem about sailing that gives a clue to the section's focus. The first includes poems about memory. The second contains reflections from within his ongoing family life, as they alternate with poems about solitude. The third expands from personal experience into reflections on more global issues - war and peace, morality and religion, the continuity of generations - while remaining anchored in the personal."--BOOK JACKET.