"Patricia Fargnoli . . . does not miss a stitch of beauty, neither does she avoid the darker aspects of our own human awareness of our continual aging, to which she gives sharp and poignant attention. I have been her champion since her first book "Necessary Light" was published, and I continue to be so."-Mary Oliver

From the perspective of long life, Patricia Fargnoli's eagerly anticipated new book "Then, Something" explores in elegant and vivid verse the boundary lines between the real and not real, between body and spirit, and between nature and human. As the boomer generation enrolls in AARP, this is the essential handbook for those who find themselves in nature, and nature in themselves.

From "Wherever you are going":

"you will want to take with you the mud-rich scent breaking through March frost,
and the aroma of lemons sliced on a blue plate, their pinwheels of light."

"you will want to take strawberries you have stolen from the farmer's night fields,
and the sleepy child you lifted from under the willow where she'd been playing."

Patricia Fargnoli is the current New Hampshire Poet Laureate and the author of five previous collections of poetry. Her previous book, "Duties of the Spirit" (Tupelo Press, 2005) won the 2005 Jane Kenyon Award for Outstanding Poetry. Her first book, "Necessary Light" (Utah State University Press, 1999) was awarded the 1999 May Swenson Poetry Award, judged by Mary Oliver.