This new collection of poetry displays all the originality and perception, the dramatic power and passion for life that have made James Dickey one of America's foremost modern poets. He writes about the bizare and the commonplace, about the public and the personal, about the amusing and the tragic. And each subject, from his uniquely poetic perspective, yields its own drama, its own madness, and its own beauty. Here is poetry that captures the desperate intesnity of human experience, poetry that ever vital human being can read adn feel.--