"These are poems of matchless invention and subtlety, built with wire and color and affection. They are about death and staying alive, about navigating hopelessly toward good hope, about sorting and caring for the confused visions of our anguished age." -Christopher Howell Ray Amorosi was born in Boston, where he spent many years as a high school and college teacher. His most recent collection, "In Praise" (2009), was published after a hiatus of more than twenty years. He lives in Marshfield, Massachusetts.