This is the one book of poems that has mattered to me the most. It changed the way I looked at the world as well as the way I looked at language. If you can find this book and read it two or three times--live with it, in other words--you will rediscover the magic in poetry, far, far away from the Iowa City crowd, the Pulitzer people and all the academic poets in all the university MFA writing programs fighting for literary immortality. These poems will live forever in my heart and, I would hope, in the hearts of anyone who reads them.