With accessibility, wit, and humour, poet Ronald Wallace evokes a wide variety of subjects that range from the traditional themes of lyric poetry - love, death, sex, the natural world, marriage, birth, childhood, music, religion, art - to the most unexpected and quirky narratives - an ode to excrement, a catalogue of comic one-liners, a celebratory testimonial to his teeth.

In For Dear Life, with accessibility, wit, and humor, Ronald Wallace evokes a wide variety of subjects that range from the traditional themes of lyric poetry--love, death, sex, the natural world, marriage, birth, childhood, music, religion, art--to the most unexpected and quirky narratives--an ode to excrement, a catalogue of comic one-liners, a celebratory testimonial to his teeth.