Selected Poems

Introduced by Dennis O'Driscoll, Selected Poems by Richard Tillinghast gathers the poet's own choice of some forty years of his work. "He is a wonderfully gifted poet, one of the few."-Louis Simpson "He is absolutely not the kind of poet who lays down the ideological law, peddles a party line, or instructs readers what to think. His humane work attests to a conviction that, in a world which 'is everything that is the case', diversities and disparities which seem beyond reconciliation or res...