The Complete Poems

From the Introduction: Just words of course all just so many words. But words strung slyly judiciously and always lovingly one after the other in due order and in such a way as to entertain sometimes astonish and the poet hopes occasionally enlighten the literate or even otherwise reader; all cast in diverse poetical schemes ranging from the formal classical pentameter of Milton or Tennyson to unformed lines to satisfy even the postiest of moderns; but in fact most of the lines herein actually - can it be? - scan and many - oh no! - even rhyme sometimes obviously sometimes merely hinted at in surprising ways recalling Wallace Stevens's remark that one writes poetry out of a delight in the harmonious and orderly; one will find here blank verse heroic couplets a touch of ottava rima numerous sonnets of various styles even just for fun a limerick and a finicky double dactyl; also some rowdy cowboy poetry and other diverse schemes nearly as numerous as the pages herein.