Sky Above the Temple

Sky Above the Temple illustrates the virtues of the best contemporary American formal verse: compression; unpredictable yet convincing rhyming; subtle yet consistent metrics; line breaks hinting at multiple meanings; sharply distinctive imagery and diction; and, above all, profoundly important subject matter explored in an astonishingly diverse range of voices. These include poems about business and office life; stress; love relationships; and American politics and how they might mirror ancient and medieval paradigms. This is an essential book of contemporary American poetry.