"Poetry." . . "American poetry." . . "American poetry" . "American literature." . . "American literature" . "ebrary, Inc." . . . . "Electronic books"@en . . "Electronic books" . "James Cummins"@en . "James Cummins" . . . "Livres électroniques" . . . . . . . . . . . . "Then & now : poems" . . . . . "Then and now" . . . . "James Cummins's first book of poems, The Whole Truth, became known throughout much of the poetry world as the \"Perry Mason sestinas.\" His second book, Portrait in a Spoon, was chosen by Richard Howard for the James Dickey Prize Contemporary Poetry Series. His latest and most accomplished work is collected in Then & Now, which reflects the same inventiveness and wit evident in his earlier books, with a deepening of tone and spirit. The result is a collection of poems filled with feeling and with Cummins's signature anguished humor. If t."@en . . . "Then & now poems"@en . "Then & now poems" . "FICTION General." . . . .