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"This book, the second in the Waiting Room Reader series, grows from the belief of its visionary originators, Joan Cusack Handler, director of CavanKerry Press, and Sandra O. Gold, president of the Arnold P. Gold Foundation for Humanism in Medicine, that one good thing to be able to pay attention to in waiting rooms is poetry. This is a belief that I, as guest editor of this volume, emphatically share. Poems with staying power are always themselves acts of attentiveness, and reading any good poem both demands and rewards attention. The job, then, is to make sure...

Rachel Hadas reaches the peak of her poetic prowess in "Questions in the Vestibule." A deeply personal and meditative collection in three sections, "Questions "moves through the liminal space of solitude and the coded landscape of dreams toward the startling power of a life-changing love.

Hadas s voice and her formal elegance, as distinctive and distinguished as ever, endow this new work with a precise and thoughtful beauty. "Questions in the Vestibule "takes readers into a new territory of unapologetic bliss."

The poems in Rachel Hadas's new book are united by a common preoccupation with passage--passage variously construed. In Section I, the four seasons are glimpsed in turn through the lenses of several types of personal associations, especially parenthood. As spring gives way to fall and winter, separation looms; diverse kinds of temporary and permanent renewal come with spring, and the fifth poem in this section steps outside this cycle. In Section II, the phrase "pass it on" recalls the game "telephone," in which a word is whispered by one speaker to another. Here the poems focus on...