It has been 10 years since a group of American Civil War soldiers was swept away from the battlefields of Earth to a distant world--where the only place for a human is as a slave to an alien race. But even though they are far from home, the members of the Union 35th Main regiment still embody the radical ideas of democracy and freedom--and they're willing to lay down their lives rather than sound retreat!

If you have ever experienced love or loss -- and who hasn't? -- you will find yourself in these poems. Describing and probing a range of familiar emotions from joy to sorrow, faith to fear, they spring from a well of personal experience common to us all. The pages of "Spindrift" swarm with images: a sunset "exploding soundlessly," the moonlight's "silver veneer;" the ocean's "sea scent" and the "sand's soft tan embrace;" Death, "a scythe and hooded skull a-skulk the marsh" and love, a "lighthouse presence." Come enter the depths of this world of imagination and insight.