Home and Away

<p>These are accessible poems written in plain direct language reminding us what it is like to be awake in our world minute by minute; poems delivered with humor and unaffected humility that suggest a steadier larger happiness than we might know. Basting's voice is simultaneously traveler bystander and intruder a recalcitrant participant-witness admonishing himself for riding the cusp of other's experiences. <em>HOME and AWAY</em> reads as a team of quietly building poems beginning with what could be and finally inviting a layered view of the peopled and natural worlds.</p>