As an introduction to Merrill, this book is excellent. But even the most knowledgeable of the poet’s readers is likely to be engaged by Yenser’s fine explications. This is an unusually artful book of sympathetic interpretation.
   --Robert von Hallberg

Calvin Bedient

Stephen Yenser is Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Circle to Circle: The Poetry of Robert LowellClos Camardon, a chapbook of poems.