Supplication: Selected Poems of John Wieners Minnesota " My birth name is

" My birth name is Elizabeth

When Reggie blindsides London with a public marriage proposal

- Charlotte Moore

This intelligent and punchy collection is steeped in musicality and the geographies and cadences of Newfoundland

Originally serialized in the San Francisco Chronicle

Supplication: Selected Poems of John Wieners Minnesota " My birth name isThere 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