Of Mortality a Music, by Julie K. Shavin. This is a collection of poems (and some proems), mainly spanning the last five years, and includes the poet's cover art, front and back. Also included are forty-four de-saturated original artworks and digitally-enhanced photographs. The volume ponders human relationships, our relationships to non-human animals, addressing sense of place, religion, politics, illness, loss, love, domestic violence, freedom, societal mores, redemption, suffering, perseverance, joy, the writing process itself, and more. There is much melancholy, even bitterness here, but...