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Alfred Corn began his career as a poet in 1972 with publications in SATURDAY REVIEW and POEM. Fifty years later, THE RETURNS: COLLECTED POEMS draws from nine of Corn's eleven volumes of poetry.

Tables is Alfred Corn's eighth poetry collection and the third in Press 53's Silver Concho Poetry Series, edited by Pamela Uschuk and William Pitt Root. Carolyn Forché, of The Lambda Book Report, says, "Corn's formal range is everywhere apparent. He even attempts sapphics in English which closely resemble what might be accomplished in the Greek. But as he understands art to be 'always more than technical virtuosity, ' his poetry never merely d...

Twenty-three contemporary writers comment brilliantly on all the books of the New Testament and how it affected their lives and works.

[M]ay well be the finest general book available on prosody."--Library Journal (starred review)

A master of the lyric, Alfred Corn is also adept at working in forms, and has published several books featuring long poetic sequences, including a book-length narrative poem modeled on Dante's "Divine Comedy". This book features the poet/critic's personal, epistolary encounter with Flannery O'Connor.

Alfred Corn is one of our finest living poets."--The Nation

A collection of essays from one of the most accomplished poets of his generation on a wide variety of subjects, from Elizabeth Bishop to Virginia Woolf and Wordsworth