<DIV><p>“Always an elegist, in the Vergilian mode, Kane touches greatness here in the beautiful poignance of 'Third Parent,' a farewell to his late mother-in-law. Only a handful of American poems in the last few decades perform the work of mourning so eloquently. Kane is a meditative poet resigned to a kind of faithless faith that longs for a transcendence not available to it.”—Harold Bloom</p><p>Paul Kane writes poems of heartbreaking beauty. Cerebral and emotional in equal measure, <I>Work Life</I> contains his most personal lyrics.</p><p>A recipient of Fulbright, Guggenheim, and National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships, <b>Paul Kane</b> teaches at Vassar College.</p></DIV>