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That Said gathers poems from ten of Robert Schreur's privately printed volumes, along with a selection of new poems. Included are short lyrics, blank-verse sonnets, erotic odes, children's verse, and three-line tanka. Across these styles the poet attempts to discover a personal language answerable to a demand for pleasure and insight. Taken together, the poems reflect an effort to achieve in poetic form an ethic of impermanence. Success in that endeavor might look like the "disorder of truths" Wallace Stevens wrote of: "They are things chalked / On the sidewalk so that the pensive man may see." That Said is an offering of such apprehended things.

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.