Doctor Jazz - Lannan Literary Selections Author:Hayden Carruth Hayden Carruth, one of the most acclaimed poets of our age, lives his music-finding the perfect low tones of terrible loss and high riffs of family and friendship."Carruth keeps getting better."-The New Yorker"Carruth's new poems are, essentially, songs of praise and celebrations of beauty; for all the real anguish and pain they record, t... more »hey remain enactments of a fundamental attitude of faith and wonder."-Times Literary Supplement (London)"The elegiac gravity of Dearest M-,' on a daughter's death, refuses to release us until its final syllable."-Library Journal (starred review)« less