The eater

by Peter Michelson

The eater is an omnivore, dealing at once with very personal and with very public matters. The poet merges his concern with his children with the encroachments of a newspaper account of imprisonment and torture and elsewhere fuses his perception of Seattle's skid row with historical accounts of the death of Leschi, the hold-out warrior chief of the Northwest Indians. These poems can move with pop, signboard speed, then turn back on themselves with lines of such metrical skill and elegance that the electricity is held still and freshly examined.

119 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1972

About the author

Peter Michelson is a poet-critic and editor of the Purple Sage.

Reviews

[Christopher · Rating 2 out of 5]

The rant at the beginning might have been the best part. Not bad though.