Athens: University of Georgia Press, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - Southern poet's first novel - a 75 year old man looks back on his life, growing up on a Depression era farm, the black family who farmed next to them, his years in prison and the brief and cherished time when he had a wife and son before he brought ruin upon them. 194 pp. Dust jacket art by Wendell Minor. ISBN: 0-8203-18078.