In his first full book of poetry, Alan Hilfiker explores two central themes that have defined his creative work for decades: the beauty and order of the natural world, and the experience of aging through the function and muse of memory. From the perspective of a cobblestone street in Germany, to an elderly woman about to write her last will, to a carefully decorated Appalachian fireplace mantle, Sources of the Morning invites the reader, in accessible language, to contemplate the question: what sacred balance of past and present, man and nature, spirit and the material, makes a life?

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