Spanning more than 30 years of writing, this poetry collection provides a wide selection of work by a prize-winning American poet. It traces the development of a career grounded in the Black Mountain and New York schools of American poetry.

Spanning more than 30 years of writing, this poetry collection provides a wide selection of work by a prize-winning American poet. It traces the development of a career grounded in the Black Mountain and New York schools of American poetry, and extends into the more recent developments of "Language writing" and post avant-garde experimental poetry.