Tom Waymans poetry has been published around the world to great acclaim. Wayman is one of Canadas most prolific and public poets, and his writing since the 1960s has been by turns angry, engaged, hopeful, tender, and hilarious. His voice and persona are his alone but simultaneously ours too. His recurring themes -- work, mortality, love, lust, friendship, the natural world -- make his work a poetry of human inevitabilities -- a poetry that exults in the inevitability of seeing poetry in the everyday. Waymans craft is poïesis (from the Ancient Greek to make) -- making a change, making a difference, making a ruckus, making the most of our time. His working life has always been inextricable from his writing one; his poems offer an honest and candid consideration of the ideological underpinnings, practical realities, and subtle beauties of a life lived on job sites and picket lines, in union halls, classrooms, and book-stuffed offices, and on the page itself. This is a collection of thirty-five of Waymans best poems, selected and introduced by Owen Percy, with an afterword by Wayman himself. The volume offers an invitation to readers to join the poet in his ongoing, and at times absurd search for meaning and human connection in work, word, and world.