The Ancient Path leads us deep into the Wildwood. The foundations of practice have been laid, and Erin is stepping into the rhythm and weaving of the worlds. But it is the spirits who now must lead her teaching, and prepare her for her initiation into the ways of those who walk the worlds. She's going to be asked to undertake her most personal journey yet - for herself, and those closest to her. Will she find her way along the Ancient Path? Winsome, her world and calling in pieces around her - what is she to do? After thinking she had found the place where she belonged, now she must decide whether to rebuild her life, or move on. Continue your journey with the inhabitants of Wellsford and Wilde Grove as they venture down the ancient path and strive to bring their lives and community into harmony. Because the world must be sung into balance and wild magic must be tapped into to keep the wheel turning.

The bard Maerad and her brother Hem hold the key to the mysterious Singing, and each of them must overcome terrible obstacles before they can unite and together unlock the Tree of Song, release the music of the Elidhu, and defeat the Nameless One.

In his first book of poetry since Repair, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2000, C.K. Williams treats the characteristic subjects of a poet's maturity-the loss of friends, the love of grandchildren, the receding memories of childhood, the baffling illogic of current events-with an intensity and drive that recall not only his recent work but also his early books, published forty years ago. He gazes at a Rembrandt self-portrait, and from it fashions a self-portrait of his own. He ponders an "anatomical effigy" at the Museum of Mankind, and in so doing "dissects" our common humanity. Stoking a fire at a house in the country, he recalls a friend who was burned horribly in war, and then turns, with eloquence and authority, to contemporary life during wartime, asking "how those with power over us can effect such things, and by what cynical reasoning pardon themselves." The Singing is a direct and resonant book: tough, searching, heartfelt, permanent. New work from the Pulitzer-Prize w