This is better than good, it is great. Publish it with a small press, now, as is, no revision. One day it will explode. —Alan Dugan

[This poem] is told from the point of view of a twelve-year-old clairvoyant, Francis Gildart; as one reviewer wrote it reads "as if Huckleberry Finn had been written by Andre Breton." Indeed between the early Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf and The Battlefield the genetic code goes uninterrupted. No other poem in Western literature maintains continuity to this extreme. —C.D. Wright

Originally published by Lost Roads, 1978. Published in a corrected second edition in 2000 with a preface by C.D. Wright with a second printing in 2008 including an editor’s note from Forrest Gander.

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