The Volunteer by Candace Black

Madeline DeFrees recommends The Volunteer, poems by Candace Black: "The poems in this first book by Candace Black are, like the volunteer of the title, pure gift. They spring, as if spontaneously, from the common clay of everyday experience—love, marriage, family, birth and death. In fresh, precise, evocative language, these poems prove the examined life worth living." (New Rivers)