When Yates and I first met and had dinner at the University of Missouri, he was an undergraduate. His work was brilliant then. This I told him and his department head. This Canticle for Electronic Music underscores the acuity of my forecasting.-W.H. Auden, The Quest With great admiration for your work.--Joyce Carol Oates I appreciate this poet's concentration, swiftness, density: his choice for the deeply personal utterance and that only. He wastes no time with exercises, set themes, and other conventional maneuvers.-Henry Rago, editor, Poetry. He is violent and unpredictable.has a wild,...