Light Disguise


				Light Disguise Poems by David Sofield ISBN 0-914278-80-0 $14.00 US



				Copper Beech celebrates thirty years of publishing the finest contemporary poets with a first collection of poems—by a long-time professor of English at Amherst College—almost as many years in the making, one of the most accomplished debuts in recent American poetry.



		“David Sofield’s poems, in this distinguished collection, are the work of a subtle, meditative mind and a keen sensorium.” —Richard Wilbur “David Sofield’s elegant, erudite, deeply felt poems have been prized by magazine readers for many years. Their collection at last in book form will allow a greater readership to savor and memorize them.” —Mary Jo Salter “These splendid poems have been a very long time taking shape and accumulating, but the poet’s patience has paid off handsomely: this collection is as lean and satisfying a book as I‘ve read in years.” —Daniel Hall “LIGHT DISGUISE embodies a loving lifetime’s engagement with the writing and reading of poetry.” —Brad Leithauser


	About the Author


	Born and brought up in Oak Park, Illinois, David Sofield was educated at Princeton and Stanford. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The New Yorker, The Yale Review, The New Criterion, Southwest Review, and The New Republic, and he co-edited and contributed to Under Criticism. He teaches at Amherst College, where he is Samuel Williston Professor of English, and lives with his wife, Lisa Raskin, in Amherst, Massachusetts, and Stoddard, New Hampshire.