These recent poems by Elizabeth Martina Bishop merge plot-lines of of story poem with the crescendo offered by the lyric narrative. Each poem has a mystical quality and evidences a search for the ineffable and inexpressible in language fraught with imagery, metaphor and allusion. Enjoy the latest volume which contains poems about family, poems about work, and poems about every day existence of an elder living in community with other artists interested in the aesthetics of self-expression and social justice .