Older Now

Older Now: Poems is a collection of LELjrs most recent poetry. As with his first collection Out of My Mind: Poems the new book reflects on parenthood romantic love aging memory and mortality in their various expressionscontemplation introspection insight and emotionas he has grown older. The poems are more inward-looking than the earlier ones. I am everyone I have ever been he says. Yet as he writes in the title poem he says I find myself in a narrowing space between memory and mortality and I am not at all sure which way to look as he explores T. S. Eliots overwhelming question: Has it all been worth it? He hopes these poems evoked similar types of reflection by readers who are will someday be or know someone who is older now.