Poetry. 30 years of work from 12 collections. BEAUTIFUL WRECKAGE includes early poems never before collected along with 24 new poems. A hunger for honesty and a charged lyricism have always made Bill Ehrhart's poetry remarkably his own. Though he's best known for his Vietnam War poems, his BEAUTIFUL WRECKAGE: NEW & SELECTED POEMS includes many lovely poems not about Vietnam. This book deserves serious recognition -- John Balaban. W. D.

Ehrhart, a Marine Corps veteran of the Vietnam War, is author or editor of sixteen previous books. MOSTLY NOTHING HAPPENS, DISTANCE WE TRAVEL and OUTER BANKS (all Adastra) are carried by SPD.