Poetry, Literature 

The range of subjects in Murray Silverstein's Master of Leaves—from the mind of God to a baby's colic, from the Higgs boson to a breakfast peach, from Shakespeare and Joyce to Mother Goose—astonishes and delights. The voice that moves through this expanse is as at home in the philosophical as it is in the colloquial. These are poems spoken by a son, husband, father, and grandfather, with a tenderness that never becomes sentimental; by a man of many appetites who notices everything, from an oily rag to Rembrandt's face "battered like an old newborn" by a man who refuses to take himself too seriously or to dwell in lament even as he makes it part of his musical score. And there is so much music here, from the moving meditation on Monet at the beginning to the stunning final sequence on dark and light that gives the book its title. These are poems that celebrate the multiple blessings of life and time. - from Amzon