Night Music
Selected by Peter Davison with an introduction by Edward Hirsch. Sissman was a true phenomenon in American poetry. He published his first book, a collection of antic, autobiographical episodes in blank verse, in 1968. Eight years and three books later, he died of Hodgkin''s disease at the age of forty-eight. Of Sissman''s remarkable final poems John Updike wrote, "What other poet had ever given su...
Selected by Peter Davison with an introduction by Edward Hirsch. Sissman was a true phenomenon in American poetry. He published his first book, a collection of antic, autobiographical episodes in blank verse, in 1968. Eight years and three books later, he died of Hodgkin''s disease at the age of forty-eight. Of Sissman''s remarkable final poems John Updike wrote, "What other poet had ever given su...
