This book makes available a generous array of [Chute`s] narrative poems, most of them originally published by small presses, sometimes in limited editions. Besides, it collects eight shorter poems from literary magazines. Admirers of Chute`s work, whose numbers must surely be growing, will be glad to find so many of his essential poems so conveniently gathered together. X.J.Kennedy Each of [Chute`s] poems is a search for meaning, that peculiarly human activity we couldn`t stop if we tried. It is the concern of the poet and of his characters. ---Pamela Alexander, author of "Navigable Waters" His images are as sharp as crusted snow, and the winter lands he shows us is obviously a land which he knows and has walked himself, a land as real as the sound of feet breaking through the snow crust, as real and as lasting as Abenaki Dreams. ---Joseph Bruchac