pTruly fine poems....I love your work.br X. J. Kennedy, author of In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus New and Selected Poems, 1955-2007br br Intelligent...handled with pleasure and confidence... beautifully executed....This fine poetry, lush with detail and rich with sound, can savor its thematic cake and still have it later, as far as I'm concerned. Don't we, too, prefer the 'impeccably impure' in art over righteous dogmatismbr Ron Smith, Poet Laureate of Virginia, author of Its Ghostly Workshopbr br Gorgeous, splendid, even magical...This is the book I wish I'd written.br Christophe Cayle, author of Forget Youbr br Poems are emotionally fraught objects some of us like to have around because, like all art, they offer the most satisfying reconciliations between ourselves and the world. The poetry of James McKee's debut collection The Stargazers invites readers to engage with personal intensities of love, grief and time's passage as well as with the looming forces of climate change,