Collected Poems

Taut, densely lyrical and everywhere informed by a powerful and subtle music, this collection of Auster's poetry begins with the compact verse fragments of Spokes (written when Auster was in his early twenties) and Unearth, continues on through the more ample meditations of Wall Writing, Disappearances, Effigies, Fragments From the Cold, Facing the Music and White Spaces, then moves further back in time to include Auster's revealing translations of many of the French poets who influenced his own writing - including Paul Eluard, André Breton, Tristan Tzara, Philippe Soupault, Robert Desnos, and René Char - as well as the provocative and previously unpublished "Notes From A Composition Book" (1967). With an introduction by Norman Finkelstein.