Poetry. LIGHTERED includes poems from five decades. Brock's work ranges from his American South to explorations in world cultures, that together led to probing the roots of the Holocaust. Van K. Brock is a poet to cherish--and read!--for his sense (wisdom) and skill in bringing the secrets of our time to us without spoiling the mystery. These lightered poems give brief strong light to family tragedies, evidence of ancient, too-present crime. [And] there are folktunes here, much music in the words for dancing, fields of sunflowers, washing screaming to be hung "in the sun like saved sinners."--Michael Mott.