Vernal Pool

by David Shaddock

"They were playing the hits from '66 on / KFOG this morning. I was meeting my wife / At the oncologist. " So begins Vernal Pool, the title poem of David Shaddock's insight-ripe collection. A disciple and scholar of the great Denise Levertov, Shaddock writes with formal alacrity and informal clarity. In language you feel and trust, he sticks up for justice, social and intimate. While the American War in Vietnam defined his anxious coming-of-age, Shaddock,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692316833
• ISBN13: 9780692316832
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: White Violet Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.1" x 6.0"