"Our favorite 'unsung' poet, " were the words Chapters Bookstore used when including Karl Kirchwey's The Engrafted Word among their 1998 favorite books. Now, in this new volume, Kirchwey -- whose work has garnered high praise from such poets as Richard Wilbur, John Hollander, and James Merrill and who has been the recipient of prestigious prizes and fellowships -- continues his explorations into the impact of the past on the present. But he also adds a strong dimension of moral gravity and social satire along with a deeper -- and deeply moving -- element of the personal. At the Palace of Jove displays Kirchwey's great gifts, offering poems of uncommon wit, piercing intelligence, visionary clarity, and generous emotional power.