Leaving Nothing Behind is a beautiful, powerful, and important collection centering on reflection and listening. This book is a valuable holistic lesson that everyone should read. -Dr. Anthony J. Nocella II, editor of Peace Studies Journal

Willitts applies brush stroke after brush stroke with each poem, referring to impressionist paintings and scientific names of birds and flora throughout to usher his reader into a garden filled with the wild and domestic, where time is suspended and we can experience layers of life - temporal and eternal, earthly and spiritual, the possible and the impossible - unveiling before us. We become part of the whole symphony and canvas. Nothing is truly left behind. -Kimberly Ann Priest, author of Slaughter the One Bird