Poetry. "Counterpointing scenes from Poland to California, from village to city, family to politics, WWII to the present, this amazing book creates a vision of grace and redemption in the face of a world often gone insane. To find its moments of grace requires a rare vision and poetic power, and Gregorek certainly possesses that. In one poem a priest is killed, his body thrown into 'the river we drink from, ' creating a simultaneous sense of communion...