With An Apology for Our Survival, Michael Farry enhances his already excellent reputation as craftsman-poet of the highest order. His multifaceted and insightful poems, full of tenderness and understanding of the human condition, shine up from every page. We are lucky to have such a fine poet among us.

—Ron Carey, author of Songs for Older Life, Racing Down the Sun and Distance.

An Apology for Our Survival, Michael Farry's latest collection, veritably sings with the lyric light-footedness Farry is known for. He delivers hard punches on threads of gossamer, pitting mental illness against Orion, while observing the imperfections of gardening alongside depths of satisfaction and the neat-wrap finales of Hollywood films - as the "party celebrations go on and on and on." Farry, himself "an expert at packing for pilgrimages", leads us on a crusade that, indeed, makes every argument for our survival.

—Carolyne Van Der Meer, author of All This As I Stand By and Sensorial.