“He comes up with poems…which say more (and more movingly) about here and now than any contemporary poems I have read…” —Selden Rodman, <i>Saturday Review</i> “He belongs in the very first rank of our living artists…” —William Carlos Williams The title poem won the 1925 Nation Poetry Prize and, recorded by the poet, is the basis for the 2005 award-winning film by Ken Kimmelman.