From a Corfu classroom to an Accra art gallery to a spa in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, poet Rachel Hadas's prose ranges through space. Recalling a 1950's New York City childhood and long-departed parents, she reaches back in time. And since all the many-faceted work here engages with the world through texts, each piece overlaps with every other piece. Rich with a variety of connections in every essay or review, Piece by Piece is about books and about paying attention. It's about living.