Summer Solstice is a collection of twelve poems about the thoughts and feelings that dominate our inner landscape as we reach middle age: children growing up and moving away, the loss of our parents, coming to terms with our own mortality, the validity of our spiritual beliefs, and the meaning of our personal lives, now half completed, and the direction we choose to give them in the time we have remaining. The poems describe the depth and richness that life gives us with the passing of years, our more acute awareness of suffering and sorrow but also of life's enduring beauty, purpose, and joy. Although the poems are written in a rich, lyrical style with various shades of meaning, their impact is direct and emotional—a refreshing antidote to the intellectual poetry of today that often strives to hide as much as it reveals.
