The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy Summer Bulletin set against the larger chaos

set against the larger chaos of his beloved city Hong Kong and our broken planet

Michael was soon ready to start writing about his near-death experience

Calling up the landscapes and relationships which sustained her

a parrot and a cat

Particularly impressive are the domestic sequences and longer poems which hold both interest and momentum throughout: an achievement of poetic coherence and craft that can only be accomplished by a poet more than ready to stake a claim for his place on the contemporary scene

The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy Summer Bulletin set against the larger chaosFollowing the success and momentum of his anthology How to Love the World (93,000 copies in print), James Crews's new collection, The Path to Kindness, offers more than 100 deeply felt and relatable poems from a diverse range of voices including well known writers Julia Alvarez, Marie Howe, Ellen Bass, Naomi Shihab Nye, Alberto Rios, Ross Gay, and Ada Limon, as well as new and emerging voices. Featured Black poets include January Gill O'Neil, Tracy K.