"Len Roberts is a poet of unwavering truthfulness and unwaveringmercy," commented Sharon Olds about Black Wings, a 1988 NationalPoetry Series selection. Counting the Black Angels, Roberts's eighthbook of poetry, is a piercingly painful and redemptive work in which heprobes memories of a violent family history and his covenants with Godand the "Black Angels.""Roberts's new work is among the most intelligent, moving, and expressivepoetry now being written."-- Hayden Carruth