by Peter Ralph Harley (Author) In Life and Death: Monroe 2023, Peter Harley continues his tradition of publishing his poetry every ten years. Monroe is an alter ego that has allowed him to write about certain ideas and experiences in the third person. In this volume, as in previous ones, there are poems of a political nature, such as "Torture" (page 56) and "Animal Skins at the Singularity" (page 17). While there is a measure of levity in many of these, there are also poems of grief like "Days Now" (page 125) since the poet's wife, Carolyn, died in 2022. Harley now lives in Tucson, Arizona, but has spent much of his life in Newfoundland, Canada, to which many of these poems refer.