Often described as a "Renanissance woman," Carol Adler is "... a rare breed of technician and artist with an uncanny ability to get inside a person"s thoughts and feelings." In this collection of poems written over the span of five decades, Adler digs deep inside her own mind and heart and delivers, in the spirit of the Prophets of Israel, her own self-styled "Howl" directed toward Jews and and non-Jews alike. In one of her "Psalms" she asks: "So what if we really are nothing but/ whirling masses of/burning particles seen from/external heights of ourselves like/stars flashing in atmospheres beyond/our reckoning, in which we know we/exist only in the rarest moments of consciousness...?"