Toward the Distant Islands: New and Selected Poems

“Carruth...contains multitudes.”—Booklist (starred review)

“Carruth is a people's poet... a virtuoso of form.”—The Nation

This “portable Carruth” gathers new poems with the essential works from a major American poet. Included are lyrics, short narratives, comic, meditative, and erotic poems that engage politics, music, rural poverty, and the cultural responsibility of artists. As Sam Hamill writ...