The poems in this book are selected from Nicholas Gordon's popular poetry Web site, Poems for Free, at http://www.poemsforfree.com. They may be used free for any personal or non-commercial purpose.Each represents a year in a person's life, from one to one hundred. Most are acrostics, spelling out a number, and are portraits of people at a particular age. Taken as a whole, the book depicts the span of human life from a variety of points of view.