Having practiced as a psychiatrist for many years, as well as having personally experienced years of intensive personal psychoanalysis, has given the poet, Farideh de Bosset, the opportunity to look at, and experience, life with an acute intensity of joy and pain. Each poem records the events of a woman’s everyday life, as well as the poet’s experiences of talking to, and healing with, patients, and friends and family, as well as the impact of literature and art, the countries she’s lived in and visited, and, of cours,e her dreams and her understanding of those dreams on her work, her creation of art, and her life. Aware of the everyday juggling between different structures of the psyche and the external world in each and every one of us contributes to the poet’s awe and admiration for the enduring nature of the human spirit.