Selected by Dave Smith as one of the five volumes published in 1990           in the National Poetry Series                     "I could not leave this book aside nor, among so many worthy others,           could I choose another. It interested me, crooned to me, and in the           end I loved it. I hope he writes many more. Read it. You will see why."           ? Dave Smith                     "A poet whose own craft is beyond dispute and whose gifted heart           has something to tell us about our ordinary selves we had almost despaired           of hearing again in the American tongue." ?John D. Bernard,           Poet Lore