“Time makes poetry from what it takes away,” John Koethe writes in this fine collection of new and selected poems. “I prize his intimate expanses and unsettling reveries, his tender contemplations and odd mental landscapes. He is an heir to Wallace Stevens and John Ashbery and, like them, he gives us the sensation of thinking itself, of a certain fleeting, daily, solitary consciousness rescued from oblivion and held aloft.” (Edward Hirsch). North Point North presents the work of an important contemporary American poet. His poems have been admired for their clarity, grace and precision; his collections have been critically acclaimed and awarded some of the most prestigious prizes for poetry. This volume of new and selected poems, remarkable for its intelligence and candor, marks a milestone in this gifted poet’s career.