I'm not into poetry. I've known that for a while now. It's very hard for me to find a poetry book that makes me truly enjoy it.

This book wasn't bad, but I guess it just didn't work for me the way I hoped it would.

There were parts of the poems that I thought were really beautiful and profound-- but some of the poems felt a little wordy for me. I always think of the Wislawa Symborska quote "Don't bear me ill will, speech, that I borrow weighty words, / then labor heavily so that they may seem light.' And for much of this, I could feel the labor.

An engaging tour de force of faith, life and everything in between. James Matthew Wilson is a masterful formalist poet adeptly balancing rhyme and meter in his work.