By Eli Siegel

In the New York Times Book Review, Kenneth Rexroth wrote about the poems in this book:

“He can be hilariously funny, but he can also be uncannily profound, and if you read him aloud, you immediately discover that he is a master of a prosody as subtle as it is idiosyncratic, and as skilled as it seems simple….

I think it’s about time Eli Siegel was moved up into the ranks of our acknowledged Leading Poets.”

From the book jacket: “Contains 178 poems, including 32 translations (Catullus, Verlaine, Basho, Martin Luther, Voltaire, Rimbaud, Baudelaire, more)….There is a Note for every poem (written by the poet)….Poems about the Civil War, American landscape, and all kinds of people with all kinds of feelings are here…with a music that is the unforgettable, real kind.”

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