This collection contains intense poems about Barn's dysfunctional nuclear family, the housing project that owned this youth, friendships that helped to shape a life journey. the destruction of mother earth, cries for social justice, and death in all its variations. This important new work is about all these topics plus deeply felt love and poems sprinkled with various shades of humor.

Barn Brand is a Bronx born and bred 79-year-old versatile poet who defies categorization.

Barn's poems have appeared in the Paterson Literary Review, on One Art: a journal of poetry, on Masterlink, on Recovering The Self and in Suburban Witchcraft Magazine. His work will also appear in the forthcoming edition of the Mosaic Art & Literary Journal; Barn is co-author of First Day at The Center. His "Lost and Found Too Late" was awarded Best Poem at the 9th Annual Foothills Art & Poetry Exhibition.