The best of these poems are deeply moving and combine a fine ear for contemporary idiom with a startling narrative gift: wonderful stories wonderfully told, and thought about, and made into poetry."--Michael Ryan
David Rivard is the author of Bewitched Playground, Wise Poison, which won the James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American Poets, and Torque. He teaches at Tufts University and in the M.F.A. Writing Program at Vermont College. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "