Of My Labor

Of My Labor is a compilation of the poetry plus many full-color photo images (in addition to black & white images and drawings) -- each image relating to specific poems in the book. Of My Labor is chockfull of puns and double entendres; this along with the pictorial elements serve to highlight the vibrant portraits of families both human and animal the nature of man and beast mother nature -- all portrayed with a skillful focus on love and hate wedlock birth death aging...while other poems often rich in humor center around food; theres also a quirky porcupine a snake dog birds of prey big cats monkeys pigs cows; and poetry inspired by poets Whitman Yeats Dickinson Adrienne Rich James Tate Leonard Cohen and others. Within this book vividly presented poems throb with human experience.