First Light - Hardcover

"A very fine work indeed. Agee seems to have hit that fine balance between allusiveness and clarity, and formal control and spontaneity, that so few poets manage to achieve these days."

Chris Agee's long-awaited second collection of poems is transnational in scope and theme, moving among his native New England, Ireland, the Balkans, England, Russia, and Mexico. Many deal with historical violence or change; the counter-historical nature of the imaginative order; or the natural abundance of Mediterranean and North American wilderness. As the collection progresses the contrast between the natural superabundance of childhood origins and the granularity of historical time sharpens. Born in Massachusetts.