from the original dust jacket and reviews: "Marc Weber's manuscript was chosen from over thirteen hundred submissions as the winner of this year's competition. Muriel Rukeyser, judge of the contest, states, 'We have found a strong, clear, new poet, full of that inner greet which we all as readers need.'" "The poems are diversified and this is an important beginning for a promising young poet who has won the most prestigious American award for a first book of poetry."