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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