Letters to Yesenin

"The way Harrison has embedded his entire vision of our predicament implicitly in the particulars of two poetic lives, his own and Yesenin''s, is what makes the poem not only his best but one of the best in the past twenty-five years of American writing."--Hayden Carruth, Sulfur

"Harrison inhabits the problems of our age as if they were beasts into which he had crawled, and Letters to Yesenin is a ...