2014 Available through Harbour Publishing
“Considering the vision Lane brought to bear on these poems over five decades—of suffering as a universal determinant, of a pitiless submission to the bedrock of Time and mortality—it amounts to no small miracle that they acquit themselves throughout with such a lucid, generous eye for the unsung and excluded; and such an abiding dignity in their rhythms of blind continuance, cyclic return, and compromised peace. Patrick Lane’s poems walked to the edge of a precipice—in that moment of emergency we might still see the outline of a nation trying to wake up.”   —Ken Babstock