Description: Poetry. You can sense the benign influence of such major New York School figures as Kenneth Koch and Paul Violi in Jamail's exclamatory poems...This book is worthy of its legacy.--David Lehman
Brief description: This is Justin Jamail's first collection. A native Texan and a former resident of Japan, he now lives in New Jersey with his wife, the writer Amber Reed and their two children. Justin is the Deputy General Counsel of the Metropolitan Opera.