The Sound: New & Selected Poems [Paperback]

InThe Soundacclaimed poet David Mason collects his best shorter work of the past forty years, including lyrics like Song of the Powers and darkly brilliant narratives The Collectors Tale and The Country I Remember, which Anthony Hecht called a welcome addition to the best that is now being written by American poets. A poet of love and history and nature, Mason forges a language that can reconnect us to the world. Author is Former Poet Laureate of Colorado

One of the author's previous books with Red Hen,Ludlow, won the Colorado Book Award and is one of the press's bestselling titles

Author is a well-known and highly respected poet whose work has been anthologized widely and adopted for coursework at universities across the country

Will appeal to fans of Dana Gioia and formalist poetryMason is a poet who justifies his claims. His forms breathe.Brain Phillips,Poetry

From his first full-length narrative poem,The Country I Remember, to his extraordinary verse novel,Ludlow, David Masons ambition to expand the realm of narrative in contemporary verse has been central to his poetic project, even as successive collections revealed him as one of the best lyric poets of his generation.Charles Martin

A poet to listen to, and to trust.Kate Hendry, author ofThe Dark Horse

One of our most authentic and accomplished poets at the top of his lyric form.Andrew Frisardi, author ofAngle

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