Norris McNamara

A collection of poems from the local author, Paul Carroll. Published in 1978, the compilation includes new material as well as poems previously featured in the Chicago Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Choice, the Nation and more.

From the foreward: "About Paul Carroll's poetry, you can never say one thing... He knows that to be modern he must also be classical: Plato, Aristotle, and the Church fathers move among modern artists and poets, American presidents and Chicago politicians, and social matrons who patronized the arts, architects who have added to or detracted from the city Carroll inhabits at the foot of Lake Michigan-- all these, and other figures, populate the dense, swirling, and always surprising democracy of his imagination."