This CD represents Jim Dening"s first potent collection of 53 poems as read by the poet himself. Dening"s poetry is of simple sounds, suburban landscapes and ordinary acts filled with symbolism. The collection contains award-winning poems - assembled from joy, grief, anger and meditation. Jim Dening"s poetic voice is distinctive in poems notable for their onward pace and sense of pulsation, and for their satisfying resolutions. These are poems for a life revisited: poems on family, loss, love, landscape, rivers; humorous poems, ironic asides. A consistent theme and powerful language develop the study of the moment of reality, the recurring question: how do we gain access to the next level, the real, the spiritual? There are ghosts in many of these poems, and we, they suggest, are the future ghosts. What"s an album of spoken word doing in a catalog of new and experimental music? Well consider that the ancient Greeks made no serious differentiation between Music and Poetry. Both fell under the protection of the same trio (or trio of trios) of demi-goddesses we have come to know as The Muses, from which music gets its root, muse.