The book is brilliant. The only reason it isn't well-known is because the author wasn't nearly as interested in cultivating celebrity as writing brilliant poems.

Five stars are way to few. I purchased the hard cover of this collection when it first appeared and have never stopped rereading and getting nourishment from these poems. From the early formal and spare poems to the later style demonstrated in the startling first poem of the book, there is no coasting or filler one feels that all has been pondered and judged and what remains still sings. Edgar Bowers passed away last february I believe, a great loss and yet what a gift this is.