Country living

"As a perennial outsider, the speaker traverses through loneliness, consumerism, and silence, until he sees his personal history as communal. It's a quest to honor the complexity of the mind and heart over time-a quest for justice, love, and compassion. Cultural forces and conventions-repression, prejudice, power regimes- frame feelings of powerlessness, and are explored deeply in this collection. Sadoff's ninth poetry collection seeks to understand why cultural norms have kept people from their fullest, most engaged selves"--