Littlefoot

Littlefoot the eighteenth book from one of this country''s most acclaimed poets is an extended meditation on mortality on the narrator''s search of the skies for a road map and for last instructions on the other side of my own death. Following the course of one year the poet''s seventieth we witness the seasons change over his familiar postage stamps of soil realizing that we are reflected in them that the true affinity is between writer and subject human and nature one becoming the other as the river is like our blood it powers on / out of sight out of mind. Seeded with lyrics of old love songs and spirituals here we meet solitude resignation and a glad cry that while a return to the beloved earth is impossible all things come from splendor and the urgent question that the poet can''t help but ask: Will you miss me when I''m gone?