This Once: New and Selected Poems 1965-1978 (The Selected Works Series #3)

The first large selection of work by the widely anthologized author of Guitar Against the Wall; City Air; Ideal Space Relations; and Legwork. The poet Carl Rakosi says of David Gitin's work: "These carefully selected perceptions in airy, delicate balance, unburdened by over-explication or description, leave the imagination free to fill them in. Mr. Gitin understands what is poetically worth observing...the minimum for giving one a lift...and what would be too much." Pulitzer Prize-winning poet George Oppen says that: "assembled 'against the wall' (the poems) spell out, and frequently with brilliant precision, 'what has happened.'" A.R.Ammons says: "You (Gitin) touch a sort of Zen infinitude." And John Cage says simply: "The work is beautiful."