"This book is "very" brave and very well done." ..".this book is lyrical in itself" ..".both personal and universal" "Best read with the heart."

Lee Scheingold's rich, painful personal journey-following the death of her husband, famed political scientist Stuart Scheingold-is described from the points of view which have informed her life: psychoanalysis, clinical social work, Buddhist meditation, and family medicine." Poetry" is the connecting thread, beginning with the Russian poems she studied long ago in college, and then to a variety of contemporary American and English verse. This...