Let the Baby Sleep

<p>Let the Baby Sleep is a fearlessly exploratory collection of poems. The poet Patrick T. Reardon dissects the world of his childhood his upbringing his relationships with his parents and siblings his maturation and growth and the wrenching shock of his brother's suicide. With extraordinary skill and grace he exposes the worlds-physical mental spiritual-that he inhabited and is forced still to inhabit and asks us to confront them with him.</p><p><br></p><p>This is a rare collection. Reading these poems feels like a privilege that should be reserved for the poet and his family but the warmth generosity humour and love that permeates the whole is offered without reservation. The poems are by turns gentle harrowing contemplative heartfelt but always insistently demonstrative insistently declarative. There is no turning away.</p><p><br></p>