Poetry. The voice of poet John Tynan in these VOICE LESSONS has a natural beauty all its own that is both an innate gift and a moral as well as technical achievement fresh unspoiled casual and yet artful never dry or contrived always freely flowing and of a sensibility so kind humorous and radically open to experience in its immediacy and depth that it seems an inseparable innate part of the poets character and yet again and again in his reflections in his lyricism the burden of experience and memory is acknowledged and overcome by a rededication of self to love and life. If there is a lesson in these LESSONS for his readers it may be that spontaneity and immediate joy constitute not merely a state of being but a creative act of becoming.