My Father's Shoes

'"My Father's Shoes' is a beautiful book about memory, family, art, choices, failure, relations, love, reconciliation, and the pleasures of growing older. It is filled with the birdsong and sea-changes of Cape Cod, a place it so affectionately and accurately reflects in poems like the award-winning "Cape Cottage in Winter." Saunders is a poet who cares about ordinary townspeople, living and dying, working for their daily bread, small moments of kindness, deep affections. The book is a treasure." --Liz Rosenberg on the back cover "Peter Saunders''My Father's Shoes' is, all told, a book about looking back in order to see into what makes the present resonate. And the power of the poetry comes from the insights of someone increasingly motivated by change and the acquiring knowledge . . . with great empathy for those figures who walk across Saunders' past with messages about being alive." --Michael Klein on the back cover