So much of what we live goes on inside— The diaries of grief, the tongue-tied aches Of unacknowledged love are no less real For having passed unsaid. What we

Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author of Prelude to Bruise and How We Fight for Our Lives confront

Provides one hundred poems including the author's "View with a Grain of Sand," and sixty-four newly-translated selections.

Potpourri of poetry includes the work of a diverse group of poets such as Vladimir Nabokov, Ogden Nash, Theodore Roethke and the Beatles.

In "Touch Me," the last poem in the collection, Kunitz propounds a question, "What makes the engine go?" and gives us his answer: "Desire, desire, desire." Thes