This book presents a definitive selection of the�poetry that Paul Violi (1944-2011) published in his lifetime, as�selected by his friends and colleagues, Charles North and Tony�Towle. Violi is often associated with the second generation'�of the New York school of poetry. However, his gift for the�transformation of unpromising material - TV listings, the call�of a horse race, a book index, a police blotter - into comic�tours de force is unique. The breadth of Violi's sensibility is second to none and this collection should establish his place in American poetry.'
