Supplication: Selected Poems of John Wieners Minnesota and he shines a light

and he shines a light on how those traditions have found ways to survive--and even thrive--in spite of being the victims of revisionist history

Originally serialized in the San Francisco Chronicle

her truck-driving husband Earl

gay and straight

Supplication: Selected Poems of John Wieners Minnesota and he shines a lightThere is no doubt in my mind or in anyone's mind who knows these poems well that they are major American poetry and will be in anthologies for one hundred years, I mean that good. Allen Ginsberg A graceful rigor seems to be Wieners' natural mode; we feel the force of deliberation in his most free forms he is never casual. The grace is miraculous, for he aims at intensities, by orders that shape and then restrict feeling to the ardent. Robert Duncan