Hayden Carruth

Collected Shorter Poems, 1946-1991 Hayden Carruth First edition

Collected Shorter Poems presents hundreds of lyric, short narrative, comic, meditative, nature, and erotic poems that Hayden Carruth wrote over a forty-five year period. This is a reissue of the book, with new cover design. Noted for the breadth of his linguistic and formal resources, influenced by jazz and the blues, Carruth gives his poems a philosophical resonance. His explorations of rural poverty and hardship? sometimes grim, sometimes funny?are deeply informed by political radicalism and cultural responsibility.