OPEN, the newest book of poetry by Susan Read Cronin, explores issues of love, life, death and family. Sometimes written as seen through the eyes of a child, Cronin's poems remind the reader of what it is like to try to make sense of the world around us. Weaving steadily between dark and light, her poems parry with their swords of wit and thrust with humor and twists. OPEN is a collection of poems destined to be read over-and-over again.