AUTHORS: Yehuda Amichai / Robert Bly / Philip Booth / Richard Broderick / Michael Dennis Browne / David Budbill / Charles Bukowski / Hayden Carruth / Hardy Coleman / Stephen Dobyns / Gary Dop / William Evans / Mike Finley / C. G. Hanzlicek / Jim Harrison / Seamus Heaney / Sean Hill / David Ignatow / Kobayashi Issa / Mark Jarman / Richard Jones / Fady Joudah / Michael Kleber-Diggs / Danny Klecko / Stanley Kunitz / Alex Lemon / James P. Lenfestey / Li-Young Lee / Thomas Lux / Thomas McGrath / David Mura / Howard Nemerov / Tim Nolan / Gregory Orr / Bao Phi / Chad Prevost / Kenneth Rexroth / George Roberts / James Silas Rogers / Seido Ray Ronci / Larry Smith / William Stafford / Peter Stein / Gerald Stern / Su Tung-Po / Greg Watson / Richard Wilbur / Gary Young / Kevin Young / William Carlos Williams

There are numerous books in print about parenting and family development, but few like this one, in which fathers offer their own accounts of being fathers from a startling variety of perspectives. Editors Greg Watson and Richard Broderick have masterfully gathered poignant, first-hand accounts of moments in a father's life from teething to burying; reflective poems describing the arc of fatherhood; accounts of insight, struggle, grief and delight gained while being a father; and epiphanies that occur only to parents.