Selected Poems

In 1982 William Bronk won the American Book Award for his bookLife Supports: New & Collected Poems. Since then, he has written seven additional books, andSagetriebhas devoted an entire issue to his work. Bronk is unquestionably a major poet--utterly original, uncompromisingly abstract in content, and deeply sensuous in form. Michael Heller, inThe New York Times Book Review, said Bronk's poetry is "singularly persistent in its own investigation of how our deepest truths are those which are most unsayable." This volume spans Bronk's entire career, from his first bookLight and Dark, to his most recentSome Words and The Mild Day(Talisman), which theVillage Voicepraised as "offering epigrammatic style, philosophical reverie, and haiku-like concision."Selected Poemsis an indispensable collection, containing the most compelling and the most popular of Bronk's eloquent poems.