Wolf Howl

by Francis Blessington

Price $12.95

ISBN 1-886157-29-4

Francis Blessington uses words as though they supremely matter. Even his longest poems are terse. Challenging, fresh, compressed -- a blend of high intelligence and emotional power -- those terms come close, but don't quite capture a sense of him. Wolf Howl is a book like nobody else's. It has to be read. The reader will discover rich rewards. --X. J. Kennedy

These sensuous and knowing poems cast a cool but intimate eye on matters of nature and representation, family and culture. Blessington's is a dependably intelligent voice, his poetry a source of fresh angles of insight. --Rachel Hadas

The poems in Francis Blessington's new book, Wolf Howl, are impressive, among other reasons because of the intensity that radiates startlingly out of what look at first to be common experiences. --David Ferry

Francis Blessington is a literary critic and a translator as well as a poet. He is a professor of English at Northeastern University. He lives in Woburn, Massachusetts, with his wife, essayist Ann Taylor, and their two children, Geoffrey and Julia.