'Sometimes you will find me working on the edges, / with all the love and intensity of a zealot, /a thrilling of words lighting my room': Ron Carey states in his ars poetica, "The Trade". Fables and legends from Abyssinia to Ireland that haunt him are woven through these lines. His prodigious imagination investigates the perception of scientists, filmmakers, and philosophers with a keen sense of wonder. In the process, his love of living, love of the world, of those dearest to him, joy in the moment, is palpable in poem after poem. Catherine Phil MacCarthy: Winner of the Lawrence O'Shaughnessy Award for Poetry and the Yeats Thoor Ballylee International Poetry Prize.