The Boy from the Green Cabaret Tells of His Mother: Poems, 1965 to 1968

56 pp. "The range and extent of this, his first book of poems... demonstrate the richness of his talent with a verve that astonishes, and an accomplishment far beyond his years. His poems are remarkable for their visual quality--the brightness of the images--and a lyrical warmth and directness which never degenerate into sentimentality. The love poems are for people who are young, and what this poetry implies in literary terms is a new emphasis, and a restatement, of old truths that have fallen out of currency."