Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, (1977) dj. Hardcover first edition - Huff's award winning third book, winner of the Associated WriterÕs Poetry Series Prize, and the second book to be published in the Virginia Commonwealth University Series for Contemporary Poetry. The dust jacket notes that "This yearÕs winning selection. . was selected from hundreds of manuscripts submitted to distinguished writers throughout the country who acted as primary judges. The final judge was Richard Eberhart, who has written an introduction to the volume. . . Many of the poems speak with compassion for the individual and praise the outsider; others continue in the best poetic tradition of honoring the dead. There are songs, jokes, simple direct lyrics, satires on fashionable attitudes, and poems that pay homage to writers whose work influenced the poetry of our time and the authorÕs own style." Annie Dillard commented that "Robert Huff writes with a kind of special, pained exultation that makes his poems distinctively fine. His caring for people so dominates his poems that his world is a series of heartÕs landscapes, moving and mental and real. HuffÕs is an excellent, controlled voice. He wears well. And, on top of all this, he swears well." 57 pp. ISBN: 0-81390725X.