Book Description
This collection of poems explores the idea of passing time from the vantage point of later midlife. Explored are such universal experiences as the impending death of aging parents and the encroachment of one's own mortality. These are poems of moving domestic intimacy and humor. They also serve as requiems for the people who have given Guyana its flavor and as songs of regret for the country's loss of civility during its dark recent years.

About the Author
Ian McDonald has lived in Guyana since 1955. He is the editor of the literary magazine Kyk-over-Al and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He is the author of the play Tramping Man, the novel The Hummingbird Tree, and the poetry collections Mercey Ward, Essequibo, and Jaffo and the Calysonian.