Robert Polito is director of the Graduate Program in Creative Writing and professor of writing at the New School. He is the author of Doubles, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

"The poems in this collection are as striking for their language, which reveals a subtle rhetorical intelligence, as for their dramas, which exist in an atmosphere charged with violence. Polito handles his volatile material with an almost ritual caution: an instinct for structure and symmetry guides his descent into the underworld of adulterous betrayal and psychic exposure." - New Yorker"

Robert Polito is director of the Graduate Program in Creative Writing and professor of writing at the New School. He is the author of Doubles, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

"The poems in this collection are as striking for their language, which reveals a subtle rhetorical intelligence, as for their dramas, which exist in an atmosphere charged with violence. Polito handles his volatile material with an almost ritual caution: an instinct for structure and symmetry guides his descent into the underworld of adulterous betrayal and psychic exposure." - New Yorker"

Robert Polito is director of the Graduate Program in Creative Writing and professor of writing at the New School. He is the author of Doubles, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

"The poems in this collection are as striking for their language, which reveals a subtle rhetorical intelligence, as for their dramas, which exist in an atmosphere charged with violence. Polito handles his volatile material with an almost ritual caution: an instinct for structure and symmetry guides his descent into the underworld of adulterous betrayal and psychic exposure." - New Yorker"