Title: The lost body of childhood
Description: A collection of 31 poems by a young man who has supplanted the dogmas of his fundamentalist Christian parents with a somber but good-humored faith in the consolation to be found in poetry. The ordering of the poems traces a coming-of-age arc, from a farewell to family and childhood, through a search for love and meaning, to finding himself at peace, content to share quiet reflections shaped by empathy, wit, and sensuous appreciation.
Subjects: poetry, spirituality, coming-of-age, young adult, Poetry (poetic works by one author)
Places: Kansas, Ithaca New York
People: Norman O. Brown, Theodore Roethke, Raymond Carver
Time periods: 1970-1980