New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of new, mostly shorter poems in the lyric mode by this award winning poet. The brevity and the economy of words add to the power of the images created - the poem "Parting" begins "She was already lean / when a stroke or two slapped / her face like drawn / claw prints: akilter she / ate less and / sat too much on the edge of beds...." Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. 52 pp. ISBN: 0-393014479.