my v. good friend’s latest novel of poems, just published; 10.13.2025: I am not a fan of poetry…generally, I just ‘don’t get it’; this book is by far an exception; first the (lengthy) forward was SO revealing and I thought I knew a lot about my great friend…, I don’t; then the poems were so enlightening. Now I won’t pretend that I ‘understood’ all of them but most of them made me stop and ponder what Stepen was trying to convey. I could never (never, never) begin to write about my own fraught childhood the way that Stephen has; I was amazed and delighted; 2025 paperback via gift by the author to me and my spouse; 104 pgs.