In Tradition and the Individual Talent, T.
Eliot wrote that the historical sense, which is a sense of the timeless as well as of the temporal and the timeless and of the temporal together, is what makes a writer traditional.
And it is at the same time what makes a writer more acutely conscious of his place in time, of his own contemporaneity.
In this poetry collection, Philip J.
Kowalski inserts himself into history and tradition yet emerges as a contemporary poe.
