Merwin may well be the best poet in America today, and this volume collects four of the most important books of poetry in the past generation: The Lice (1963), The Moving Target (1967), The Carri
A one-volume compendium by one of the premier poets of the twentieth century and a winner of the Dorothea Tanning Prize includes The Compass Flower, Feathers from the Hill, and Opening the Hand. Origi
During the last years of his life, McGrath found it extremely difficult often impossible to write. Still he continued to write new poems, enlarging his work-in-progress, Death song , knowing the book
From Paris in the 1920's to the student strikes at San Francisco State in the 1960's, Kay Boyle chronicled much of the twentieth century. This collection includes all her published poetry as well as n
Lucille Clifton was born in Depew, New York in 1936, and educated at the State University of New York at Fredonia and at Howard University. Her awards include the Juniper Prize for Poetry, two nominat
There can be no doubt that Hayden Carruth is one of the pre-eminent American poets of the late twentieth century. In these poems written since publication of his Collected Shorter Poems, 1946-1991, w
For thirty years, the late Thomas McGrath labored over his narrative epic poem, Letter to an Imaginary Friend, first publishing Part One in 1963, and finishing with Part Four in 1985. All previous ed
