Packing Up for Paradise: Selected Poems 1946-1996

This collection of poetry showcases the work of "the heartiest and most enthusiastic celebrant since Whitman" (Jim Cory). Above all, James Broughton delights in pleasures of body and soul - but perhaps especially those of the body - with wit and charm. As Rain Taxi writes, "Broughton's is a poetry of revelation, not obfuscation. . . . Each poem is a celebration and a call to offset the putrefaction of complacency with a bit of devilishness."