Improved Binoculars Author:Irving Layton The 87 poems included in the first (1956) edition of The Improved Binoculars were selected from the eight volumes the poet published in the first ten years of his career. The publication of the book did much to establish Layton as a major talent on the international poetry scene and prompted Robert Creeley to note: `Irving Layton may well... more » be for the historian of Literature ... the First Great Canadian Poet.'« less