Love and Surgery

"In this collection, the poet describes life events in three acts: the magical courtship and marriage to a woman he met by chance, the subsequent devastation and loss of his third wife, and the amputation of his leg after years of suffering with a congenital deformity. It is an elegy to love, loss and letting go. The poems exist in a kaleidoscopic, musical landscape before concluding with a beautiful homage to Mary Oliver, and an acceptance of the existence of psychic and physical pain as a part of our existence."--