In poems both intimate and public, meditative and musical, Dings seeks to enrich the present by evoking both the future and the past. Urgent and carefully formed, these poems seek an awareness and expression that are responsible -- intellectually and emotionally -- to the most private and most communal moments of human experience. In its exploration of the emotional and spiritual dichotomy struggling within us all, Eulogy for a Private Man is essentially and profoundly human in theme.