Stations of the Air

by John Ciardi

Price 64 pages, $10.50 cloth

ISBN 0-933532-86-5

A buffet with light and heavy verse, something here for every taste. Individually they dazzle. -- North Shore Review

Exquisite, breathtaking poems in graceful, loosely formal lines. -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Stations of the Air provides 33 poems left among the papers of John Ciardi at the time of his death in 1986, selected and arranged by Miller Williams. They offer us a last breath of genius from one of the great literary men of our time. They demonstrate the wit, skill, profundity, intensity and multiplicity of a great poet and supreme translator--a man for whom art was devotion without pretension, who believed in the life-size but who expected poets and readers to stretch their intellects and emotions. John Ciardi's work did not weaken, but continues to enrich the lives of alert readers who care about depth of engagement and subtlety of interpretation.

A recorded interview with this author is available from New Letters on the Air.