The Iron Key Poems Author:James Longenbach A capacious, elegant collection from a writer ?with an ear as subtle and assured as any American poet now writing? (John Koethe).These poems are filled with the accumulated treasure of a lifetime, yet at their heart is the loss that fuels this dream of abundance: the friend to be mourned, the child to be loved, the poem to be written. Again and ... more »again, The Iron Key brings us to the door that opens onto the future.