To Befriend a Fox

The late Richard Pearce was a poet's poet. The content of his work runs the gamut -- one minute meditating on the paintings of Edward Hopper, the next playfully recalling a time he made "sidewalk angels" in wet cement. Yet Pearce also had a dark side, as chronicled in much of his later work. Though by no means "complete," this volume represents the first time a good portion of Pearce's poetry has been collected in a single anthology.