Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, USA, 1988. Hardcover, 9¼" x 6¼", with dust jacket. VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket. Plum-colored cloth-bound boards with silver type to spine, light-gray endpapers, printed throughout on durable cream stock. Presenting over forty new poems and a generous selection from six earlier Hoffman books. The Times Literary Supplement says of Hoffman: "his zestful verbal performance, supple use of rhyme and other-sound effects … makes the processes of his writing interesting." This book affirms the power of poetry to make possible the acceptance and transformation of life.