Second Home



				Second Home Poems by Randy Blasing ISBN 0-914278-79-7 $12.00 US


				The sixth collection by the acclaimed author of GRAPHIC SCENES (Persea, 1994) and THE DOUBLE HOUSE OF LIFE (Persea, 1989)



		“A wonderful achievement!“ —J.D. McClatchy “The ‘Mediterranean’ poems are as evocative as any in our language” —James Merrill SECOND HOME proves once again that “Blasing has few if any rivals when it comes to writing gut-wrenching, lyrical poetry” —Booklist. “SECOND HOME is a varied and sustained performance. In poem after poem the reader follows the moves of a mind engaged in making a web of all its experience.” —Richard Wilbur “Randy Blasing’s poems are at once tranquil and unsettling, condensed and expansive. His images are deceptively clear and sharp, for time and again in these poems memory is folded back upon itself.” —Rachel Hadas


	About the Author


	Randy Blasing grew up outside Minneapolis and graduated from Carleton College and the University of Chicago. He has published five previous collections of poetry and six books of translation, including Poems of Nazim Hikmet. Among his awards are grants from the Ingram Merrill Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in Providence and teaches at the Community College of Rhode Island..