Publisher's Synopsis
This new collection, from the poet's eighth and ninth decades, finds Galler ablaze with rebellious fire and engrossed in the incongruities between myth and a mythless world. His efforts remain devoted to formal verse of a prolific range and variety of themes. From love poems, portraits of fellow artists, and self-portraits of the writer-at-work, to poems about the transforming moments of contemporary life, Galler's vision is fixed on the edge of light surrounding pervasive darkness. Unflinching yet suffused with humanity, these poems evoke something between half-glimpsed horror and joyful magic. "Not to have seen these poems would have been a loss in pleasure and admiration...on the whole they are unrevisable" (J.V. Cunningham).
