In 1982 William Bronk won the American Book Award for his book
Life Supports: New & Collected Poems
. Since then, he has written seven additional books, and
Sagetrieb
has 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, in
The 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 book
Light and Dark
, to his most recent
Some Words and The Mild Day
(Talisman), which the
Village Voice
praised as “offering epigrammatic style, philosophical reverie, and haiku-like concision.”
Selected Poems
is an indispensable collection, containing the most compelling and the most popular of Bronk’s eloquent poems.