This is David Tucker' s third collection of poems. His first book, Late for Work, won the Bakeless Poetry Prize, selected by Philip Levine, and was published by Houghton Mifflin. He also won a national chapbook contest held by Slapering Hol Press, for Days When Nothing Happens. He was awarded a Witter Bynner Fellowship by the Library of Congress, selected by Donald Hall. He studied under Robert Hayden at the University of Michigan. Tucker' s poems have appeared in numerous magazines, including Ploughshares, Mississippi Review, North American Review, Lascaux Review, Narrative, Southern Humanities.