Richard Aronowitzs Life Lessons is a book about coming into knowledge. Not so much from reading but from living close to the natural world to family and to history. Tied to a conviction that We are what we have always been these thoughtful well-crafted poems evoke an English pastoral tradition almost as a birthright except that today the poet escapes not the tensions of the Elizabethan Court but the gargantuan features of an industrial economy.