In the Dead of the Night.

Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press (1975). First edition. 82 pp. Near fine in wrappers. The author’s second full-length collection, and one in which the strategies and obsessions we recognize his work by begin to emerge. A collection of short lyrics and meditations, the poems revolve around two poles: New England history and landscape on the one hand, and literature–its authors and characters–and art–its painters and subjects–on the other: Trakl, Eluard, Mayakovsky, Klee, Seurat, Baudelaire, Babel.