Among the Fallen Trees: Poems in Midlife

Midlife's beginning and end are marked not so much by specific ages as by the subjective experience of youth having passed but age not yet having arrived. The poems in this collection were written either within a decade of the author entering midlife or in the last few years before he left that time of life. Many poems have themes especially characteristic of midlife-recognition of limits, self-examination, new perspectives, and a sense of mortality. Other prominent themes are nature, God, ...