The Net - Softcover

Unified by its theme of metamorphosis, these poems descend deeply into subjects as divergent as a jetty that disappears during high tide, to a talking parasitical head, to a sandlot baseball legend, to a famine road in Ireland, to Orpheus, to Wittgenstein, to a murdered poet and his wife, and finally to grave personal loss, tracing through all of its many attentions the thread that binds the physical to the metaphysical—a psychic passage from death back to life again.

DANIEL TOBIN is the author of five previous poetry collections. Awards include the Massachusetts Book Award and fellowships from the NEA and John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. He teaches at Emerson College in Boston.