The second book of poems by a writer widely published in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia. Some of these poems appeared in Commonweal, New York magazine, the New York Times, and elsewhere. His first book of poems, The Brittle Gods, was published by Loyola University / Apprentice House Press. This book, Shadow, Take Me Down, is concerned, sometimes hesitantly and sometimes too confidently, with love, its adventures and misadventures