A Tender And Provocative Collection Of Poems Interrogating The Troubles And Wonders Of Both Childhood And Parenthood Against The Backdrop Of Global Violence.from Accomplished Poet Wayne Miller Comes A Collection Examining How An Individual's Story Both Hues To And Defies Larger Socio-political Narratives And The Sweep Of History. A Cubist Making World War I Camouflage, A Forlorn Panel On The Ethics Of Violence In Literature, An Obsessive Litany Of Late Capitalist Activities, A Military Drone Pilot Driving Home After Work-here, The Awkward, The Sweet, And The Disturbing Often Merge. And Underlying It All Is Miller&8217;s Own Domestic Life With Two Children, Who Highlight The Hopeful And Ingenious Aspects Of Childhood, Which Is &8220;not As I Had Thought The Thicket Of Light Back At The Entrance But The Wind Still Blowing Invisibly Toward Me Through It.&8221;&160;the End Of Childhood, Miller&8217;s Sixth Collection Of Poems, Is His Most Intimate, Juxtaposing His Own Fraught Youth With That Of His Children Amid Insurrection And Pandemic, Vacation And Vocation, Art And War.