Harold Witt has been published in a wide variety of periodicals, anthologies, texts, and books of his own, among them the anthologies: Some Haystacks Don't Even Have Any Needles, Erotic Poetry, The New Yorker Book of Poems, and Our Only Hope is Humor, published by this press. He is the winner of the Hopwood Award for Poetry, the James D. Phelan Award for narrative poetry, a San Francisco Poetry Center Award for poetic drama, and The Poetry Society of America's Emily Dickinson Award. This sonnet sequence is a love story, the love for a body of literature that sees the poet through his adolescence, his loves and marriage, and his experience as a conscientious objector during World War II, but mostly through his love for words and those who live by them.