Renowned poet and painter Clarence Major examines the world through the lens of his art studio in this new collection of poems. Both humorous and serious, deeply felt and spontaneous, the collection begins and ends in his studio, with the poems in between exploring how art can shape one’s perception of the physical world and more imagined considerations of Emily Dickinson, opera, beauty, romance, and the natural world, “where all the parts coalesce / into a cohesive whole.”