Fields of Wonder Author:Rod McKuen Regarded as the author's "best book to date" at time of publication. He himself admitted "that [this book] is something I have been trying to write for a long time. It is a statement that has its roots in my childhood, but it is very much the way I've come to feel about life and love in the last year." Although the po... more »ems have separate titles, the work may be read as a single long narrative. ... more sensual in imagery than his previous poetry, this is a work of love, by a man who became the world's best-selling poet by sharing his own emotions and thus communicating what all of us feel.« less