The Fading Smile: Poets in Boston, from Robert Frost to Robert Lowell to Sylvia Plath,
Knopf, August 1994. First Edition. Cloth. An intimately perceptive account, by a poet who knew them all, of the brilliant circle of poets who lived and worked in Boston through the half-decade beginning in 1955. That was the year Peter Davison, coming to Boston as a book editor, was swept..... More