New books in the Knopf Poetry Series
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Brad Leithauser
HUNDREDS
OF FIREFLIES
"The observations glisten, the
feelings ring true. These poems
by a young, unostentatious
craftsman are made to some–
thing very like perfection. No
one should overlook them:'
-JAMES MERRILL
Cloth $11.50, paper $5.95
Nicholas
Christopher
ON TOUR WITH
RITA
" His poetry is not merely
extraordinarily good, but seems
to me altogether in a class by
itself. The poems move with
speed and conAdence and a
fine , admirable inventiveness:'
-ANTHONY HECHT
C loth $11. 95, paper $6.95
Thomas Rabbitt
THE BOOTH
INTERSTATE
"An original vision ... proof that
the pastoral is alive in American
poetry today... His Booths of
Boothtown live in the imagina–
tion
I
ike those Snopeses of
Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha:'
ROBERT PHILLIPS, Hudson Review
Cloth $9.95, paper $5.95
Katha Pollitt
ANTARCTIC
TRAVELLER
"A stunning collection ... Consis–
tently striking and accom–
plished ... The beginning of a
brilliant career." JOEL CONARROE,
Washington Post Book World
"A rapturous first book:'
-RICHARD HOWARD, The Nation
Cloth $1l.50, paper $5.95
Marie Ponsot
ADMIT
IMPEDIMENT
"Here is a poet whose passion is
intelligence, whose ' wisdom
informs and fuels passions; here
language and knowledge reveal
their intricate and intimate con–
nections:'
-MARILYN HACKER
Cloth
$12.95,
paper $6.95
Edward Hirsch
FOR THE
SLEEPWALKERS
Ntl ll/inllt~d
lor tir e Nlltiontll
Book
C riti(~ Circl~
Award
"Exceptional
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-PETER STITT,
Georgia Review
" His poems easily fulfill Auden's
request that poems be, above all
else, 'memorable language:"
-JAY PARINI, New Republic
Cloth $10.95, paper $5.95
