For Father and Many Other Things by Dr. Matthew Diomede is a poetry selection that reveals his closeness to his Italian-American family and to all of nature. His images of nature like night father and day mother are the archetypes of all people. His book is a tribute to all of life and death and the preciousness of both. This poetry book manuscript was originally recommended by John Ashbery as an Award-Finalist in the Virginia Commonwealth University Contemporary Series.