(Hardback)

Examines the ways in which five great modern American poets, writing their final books, try to find a style that does justice to life and death alike. This title focuses on the books: "The Rock", "Ariel", "Day by Day", "Geography III" and "A Scattering of Salts".

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

What impels poets to leap across time and space to speak to invisible listeners, seeking an ideal intimacy This book argues that such poets must invent the language that will enact, on the page, an intimacy they lack in life.