Friends: A Sequel, David Kherdian (softcover)

In this book of poems, David Kherdian has evoked “the enduring quality of friendship” that “is harder to understand than to hold,” and “our hoped and dreams … yet permanently held in our souls.” As he writes in the preface, “Childhood is a time of beginnings: being many beginnings, with various people, in particular those of a similar age, in a place that was our own, unaware at the start of its hold on us… It is the artist that recaptures what can easily be lost; what others might forget, outgrow, reject, or sadly, no longer remember—that is, of that special time that was once completely ours to hold.”