Publisher's Synopsis
"Eye-Baby" bears striking witness to the powers of perception, whether in terms of the observing - and reflecting - human eye, the camera lens or the mind's eye of imagination and memory. Here are poems which meditate on the links between sight and insight, covering many points on the journey from childhood to old age. Some are prompted by actual journeys; others take up Lawrence Sail's abiding concern with the sea and the natural world; others weigh the visions of artists in the frame of history. Throughout, there is an acute awareness of the ambiguities which surround experience, and which contrast darkness and delight.
