The title means "Diary of an Eighty-Year-Old: A Poem with More Tears
than Hands"; the poems or cantos are in English. The Book is a long,
intense, lyrical, and often surreal meditation/recollection of a life in
all its complexities, with frequent immersions into the loss of friends
and family. In short this is a stunningly beautiful, unique, and
unsentimentalized invocation of life and its mirror image, death.
Argüelles remains at the peak of his powers with this unforgettably
intimate, universal, and deeply human work, "where sleep is freed / from
waking".