Collected Shorter Poems 19461991 Author:Hayden Carruth Collected Shorter Poems presents hundreds of lyric, short narrative, comic, meditative, nature, and erotic poems that Hayden Carruth wrote over a forty-five year period. This is a reissue of the book, with new cover design. Noted for the breadth of his linguistic and formal resources, influenced by jazz and the blues, Carruth gives his poems a p... more »hilosophical resonance. His explorations of rural poverty and hardship sometimes grim, sometimes funnyare deeply informed by political radicalism and cultural responsibility.« less