His new poems resonate with memorable personalities: Bandler, the caustic school janitor; Clifton, the gruff handyman; and Ludochka, the seductress. Charach reaches his poetic height in the evocative “Jewish Grain,” and the heartbreaking “March of the Innocents.” His work is stylistically varied yet consistent in its devotion to humanism and in its moral objective – rare qualities in poetry these days.