David Wagoner has won the acclaim of his peers and been compared with some of the most gifted poets in the English language: Emily Dickinson, James Wright, Robert Frost, and Theodore Roethke. The Antioch Review has ascribed to him a profoundly earthbound sanity, while Publishers Weekly' credits him with a plain-spoken formal virtuosity and a consistent, pragmatic clarity of perception. His collections have garnered Poetry's Levinson and Union League Prizes, the Ruth Lilly Prize, and nominations for the American Book Award and the National Book Award. For his most recent collection, Walt...