In his introduction to this selection, James L. Pethica writes: “It offers us both a retrospective - a compressed and intensified accounting of Wyley’s accomplishment to date - and, in the new poems, the forward-looking soundings and negotiations of a writer whose sense of the possibilities of poetry remains vital and immediate.”
The cumulative effect is one of energy, imagination and heart - and a quiet determination to, in the poet’s own words, “write for the page within”.