Fireweed: Poems

From the inward winding of “Looking Back on Coming Back,” to the rescuing passion of “Rio Mora,” this book of poetry by William Gates traces a tangle of troubles and their one solution: Love, the center and the core. Love of art began it, love of this earth carried it, love of a supreme and delightful woman opened it wide. “Love braving all the future.” Those are the words we take away.