How To Say Goodbye

This is James Valvis' first collection of poetry, though his poems have graced the pages of numerous anthologies, magazines and journals over the years. Paul Kareem Tayyar notes that in this substantial book, Valvis' "poems somehow emerge as stubbornly optimistic, populated as they are by characters who, no matter how desperate their financial or their personal circumstances, refuse to let themselves become the victims that society seems to want them to be."