Adam and the Danger of Sleep

“Human existence is but a breath, a shadow that will pass away (Ps 144). In his latest collection, Vaughan explores the sorrows and occasional bright joys of mortality. Every reader will relate to poems that capture in stark, simple detail those incidents in life's journey whose reverberations (for good or ill) will echo down the years, changing everything about us. These poems will likewise live in the mind long beyond their first reading.”


—Ray Moore, author of Study Guide to “Four Quartets: Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages, Little Gidding” by T.S. Eliot