Each person lives but a single lifeampampmdashyet this is not wholly true. While our lives progress as a result of the choices we makeampampmdashthis career that husband this town that houseampampmdashwe are left imagining a life we might have lived. If we are defined by our choices in what ways are we limited by them What of the spiritual lives we lead the inner lives that others cannot truly know Which life is truestA woman recalls her special bond with her father and compares it with her ties to other men a man copes with his unloved life and finds a way to secretly inherit it after making love for the first time a young woman wishes to go back in time erase what sheampamprsquos done.In readable finely wrought resonant and memorable poems about the nature of longing and disappointment desire and betrayal pleasure and sorrow The Other Life explores the dualities in life that every person experiences.