Cold Companionable Streams Author:Louis Daniel Brodsky With this book's forty-four chronologically arranged poems, Brodsky captures significant occasions (his wedding anniversary, the death of a friend, Nixon's resignation) as well as simple details from his daily life (making business trips, eating at small-town diners, watching trains fly past crossing gates as they race to imagination's destinati... more »on), all the while analyzing the relevance of his own existence in relation to these events.« less