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.