The poems and the story in this volume were found among papers left by Jackie Feldman, who worked on them for more than thirty years. Each poem is fashioned from close examination of a life-family relationships (especially between mothers and children), marriage and divorce, health and sickness, relationships to nature and technology. The poems about motherhood are suffused with a sense of continuity from generation to generation as they consider childbirth, a mother's care for her newborn, and fashioning a growing child's environment. Poems about children reverse the point of view, capturing...