What is most compelling about Ralph J. Mills, Jr.'s Living With Distance is the sense the poems had to be written: chaste, sensitive, often deeply meditative, they reveal strongly the poet's essential self. Like all fine books, Living with Distance shows us a man - one we want very much to know.-- Lucien Stryk Mills's absorption in nature is one of the remarkable features of this book. In virtually every poem - and Mills's subjects range from...