"In today's world it's deceptively easy to lose our direction and stray from what matters, only to look back with regret on a life we dreamed of but never lived. These ten poems, and Housden's reflections on them, urge us to stand once and for all, right now, in the heart of our own life. The poets include Thomas Merton, Stanley Kunitz, Mary Oliver, Rumi, C.P. Cavafy and Haomi Shihab Nye. The latest in the Ten Poems series."