Judith Robbins' poems run the length and breadth of the seasons, the natural world and life as we know it. Through the lenses of everyday routine, the distances of childhood, and the expanses of making and reading poetry from Dante to Mary Oliver, we get in these verses penetrating reflections of wonder, anger, joy, regret, faith and doubt, hope and discouragement, resentment and love--records of a well-examined life.--Dana Wilde, author