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Vince Wixon paints America's Midwest and Pacific Northwest "weightless." We go with the poems' airy, unobtrusive hand and eye-at times we slip in between the realm of ghosts and souls, mother in a coffin, father's life near its end-juxtaposed with the kitchen table lit up in brilliance. Time and desire, the personal private and the open and infinite are sketched here with a magnificent seeing-a keen wisdom balanced between landscape, family, c...

Brings together for the first time over four hundred aphorisms and twenty-six aphoristic poems by one of America's most essential poets of the twentieth century. In keeping with Stafford's varied interests, the aphorisms in Sound of the Ax explore many topics - war and peace, involvement, ageing, appearances, fear, egotism, writing, nature, animals, suffering, faith, living an ethical life, and so on - with his incisive view.