''Among the best 50 pages of
poetry published this year."
- STANLEY PLUMLY,
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The Shore
DAVID ST. JOHN
"A handsome collection of lovely and fluent lyric poems,
acknowledging the grime and sadness, naming the battered
stage-props of our lives, but rising nevertheless .to nothing
less than melody and grace. ·A sound and rare accomplish–
ment." -
ANT HO NY HECHT
510.00 cloth; S4.95 paper
''A profoundly innovative
book. ..deserves the attention
of every serious reader."
-ALAN WILLIAMSON,
Washington Post Book World
Four Good Things
JAMES McMICHAEL
"A long poem of enormous range and liveliness, that keeps
attaining its unity in a series of unpredictable but perfectly
coherent ways...In its emotional richness and splendor, it's
an unexcelled contemporary poem." - .
RO BERT PINSKY
S8.95 cloth; 54.95 paper
8th Selection in the Houghton Mifflin New Poetry Series
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