In his preface to "Visitations," Mr. Whitt writes, "Poetry is the poet. Etymologically, the word means 'maker, ' but what the poet ultimately makes is not so much the poem as himself. The poet is his own audience-though others eavesdrop-and each poem that he is moved to write speaks to him with a new voice, one that he has never heard before. Thus goes the poet, from poem to poem, from rebirth to rebirth, constantly recreating himself in a perpetual "fuite en avant."" The poems in this little book, which were composed over a period of fifteen years, are arranged thematically, not...