A stunning collection of a celebrated poet’s best works.

“How wonderful to have the best work of this remarkable poet gathered into a single stunning volume. His metaphors give ordinary life the vivid strangeness of a dream. The merciless clarity of the poems from ‘Nine Deaths’ will break your heart”—Nancy Willard

“In The Planet on the Desk cumulative perfection is attained: a maximum strength of image and word choices—word company—and a consciousness capable of surviving burden and creating lightness work together to bring out a poetry where everything is meant but so surprisingly revealed. His lines can flutter the spirit and bestow understanding.”—Sandra McPherson

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