The Fugitive Self: New and Selected Poems

The Fugitive Self is a tribute to a distinguished career spanning fifty years in American letters. At once meditative, whimsical, and hard-hitting, it illuminates the spiritual cost of American expansion.Nothing wers"d been counting on all the time wers"d waited was waiting when we arrived.Only more waiting-John Wheatcroft is the author of twenty books in three genres, a WWII combat veteran, and professor emeritus at Bucknell University. He has a well-known following-Peter Balakian, Bruce Smith, Tom Gardner, Betsy Sholl-who believes his work is seminal to understanding violence now and in the second half of the twentieth century.