Gritty and tender, raw and lyrical, Robert Hazel's poetry illuminates the mystical in the commonplace, the sacred body in the exploited flesh, the human voice amidst the racket of our machines. His vision of America's life never flinches, it never loses faith, and it stays true to this day. "So large and pure and new a voice so suddenly there," said fellow poet Barry Spacks. "Hart Crane pouring back into the language, and behind him Walt Whitman, the main current flowing, but gracefully; the natural, special, endlessly ambitious American poetics; the true inheritance.".