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Book SynopsisIn this debut collection, the author explores both the gaps and the connections between the self and others. Like the night blooming jasmine leaving its warm trace, these poems arise out of the dark. With great poise, keen insight, and formal skill, he moves between shared experience and interior life in the shifting textures of Other People.
Trade Review"In my opinion, Phoenix Poets - which includes David Ferry, Turner Cassity, Donald Davie, Tom Sleigh, Alan Shapiro and the like - is second to none." - Richard Wilbur "The 'other people' of the title of this extraordinary book are fully alive in the life of its language; and so is the poet observing them, and observing himself, as one of them. The book is a sympathetic and unsentimental instrument of truth." - David Ferry"
