Literary Nonfiction. Irving Feldman is one of the USAs finest poets. Approaching his 91st year he has brought together a collection of aphorisms he has been at work on for several years. Irving Feldman writes with an immediacy vigor and precision of insight that make this book an exhilarating achievement. Again and again one is brought to consider the claim of unwelcome doubts as well as unsolicited truths. His discipline and economy of phrase can survive comparison with the masters of the aphor