J. Patrick Lewis is an accomplished poet whosepoems have been published in many poetry journals, including The Gettysburg Review, American LiteraryReview, The Adirondack Review, Spoon RiverQuarterly, and Santa Barbara Review. This collectionof serious and light verse does what poetry is expectedto do: challenge and move the reader toconfront his/her own feelings, perceptions, andexperiences of being alive.