The Imposition of Ashes: Early Poems - Softcover

Written between 1980 and 1987, the poems in The Imposition of Ashes are the early efforts of a poet whose subsequent work has received the praise of Richard Wilbur, Anthony Hecht, and John Ashbery. The manifold energies of the later work are already on display here—in visionary odes and elegiac pastiches, disquieting lyrics and a splendid, half-mad eclogue. Admirers of Joseph Harrison’s talent and readers of fraught, courageous, arresting poetry will find much delight in this book.