Sister Appassionata is, as poet David Citino suggests, perhaps a bit obsessed with sex; this limits the number of people I would give the book to - but not the number who should read it. The poems are delightful reading - so well written you don't even notice the craftsmanship. That is from me, extremely high praise. What truly sets these poems apart, however, is the quiet wisdom that permeates them - to paraphrase an example "the hell of thinking only what one already knows". The poems emphasize our interelateness and make us laugh at our foibles. All this in humourous poems. What else could you ask for?