“Book Descriptions: Poetry. In this diary of intentionality, the behearer and the beholder approach the world with an attitude of longing--for less: less sorrow, less suffering. Daily practice delivers the speaker to profound meditations on the nature of the self. These poems press against our deepest held questions: what is an I? Where are my borders? What or how am I "with"? "From whom--from what--do we hide?" "This little book of few words is immense in its silences, depths of ambiguity, range of feeling--dark, light, umber, copper, sienna--full of strange inward jottings (graphically adventurous) that echo and dance in a reader's mind. ASCENSION's quiet absences are fully, passionately, present--you can almost hear the music the title suggests, and the loss and wonder that goes with it"--Norman Fischer.” DRIVE