Employing a clear, unflinching eye and a wry, affirmative humor, Robert J. Levy's "All These Restless Ghosts" unfolds in a series of discursive meditations and vignettes - written in a mix of both free and formal verse - that seek to unearth the large in the small. With a meticulous intimacy and resonant music Levy mines the quotidian events of daily life, finding in the smallest of moments the most luminous of epiphanies. In lines tinged with gentle humor, he crafts poems that are at once refreshingly conversational and profoundly meditative. He engages our affectionate attention, leading us...