Contains selected poems from:
What a Kingdom It Was (1960)
Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock (1964)
Body Rags (1968)
The Book of Nightmares (1971)
Mortal Acts, Mortal Words (1980)
The Past (1985)
When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone (1990)
Imperfect Thirst (1994)