Rooted In Place

In Rooted in Place, Len Soloas lyrical and narrative poems grow out of the places heas lived and the people in these places. The book is set in southwestern Pennsylvania, where he grew up, southwest Florida, where he lives part-time, and Sudbury, Massachusetts, where he lives most of the time. Soloas poems capture moments. He uses simple and direct words to show the sequence of fact and motion which produce the emotion in the captured moments. The volume begins with poems about youth and follows a chronological sequence through old age. These poems are not meant to teach or preach but to surprise and delight.