What he has assembled here is a set of poems written in the aftermath of a divorce. I like this book so much that I am almost grateful for the divorce, because without it, I doubt we would have such a window into this gentle soul. Here there is pain, and joy, and something that straddles them, what John at times refers to as "beauty." The poetry is disarmingly mature. He's not trying to impress the grownups because he knows he is one of them,...