This book provides a way to read and understand a wide range of poems, mostly very current poets. The trope is the journey of life, and how poetry can accompany one along the way. Readers can enhance their reading of poetry without taking a college course; this is ideal for that. For writers, it helps to formulate what one is doing when writing a poem. If the emphasis on life's journey starts to annoy, readers can skip to the actual line-by-line reading of the poems.
