Between The Birth Of The Poets Daughterand The Deaths Of His Parents, The Poems In Monsoon Diary Attempt To Make Sense Of The World, From A Mid-life Flight From Home En Famille To New Perspectives On Both The Past And The Future.monsoon Diary Strikes An Often Elegiac Tone, Betraying A Growing Awareness Of Mortality And The Many Losses That Come With Age.but It Also Bears Witness To A Country Transitioning From Dictatorship To Democracy, Finds The Seeds Of A New Half-crown Of Sonnets In A Line Of Catullus, And, In Driving To Delvin, A Poem Of 84 Couplets, Breaks Out Into A Kind Of Road Movie Of Spirited And Sometimes Random Association, Bringing All Of The Books Many Themes And Ideas, Its Fears And Hopes, Together In A Celebration Of Forward Motion, Of Living Itself.