<DIV><DIV><B>The searing collection, a cult favorite for decades, by the late Thomas James<BR></B></DIV><DIV><B></B> </DIV><DIV><B>I will last forever. I am not impatient—<BR>My skin will wait to greet its old complexions.<BR>I'll lie here till the world swims back again.<BR>                —from “Mummy of a Lady Named Jemutesonekh”</B></DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>Thomas James's <I>Letters to a Stranger</I>—originally published in 1973, shortly before James's suicide—has become one of the underground classics of contemporary poetry. In this new edition, with an introduction by Lucie Brock-Broido and four of James's poems never before published in book form, this fraught and moving masterpiece is at last available.<BR><I></I></DIV><DIV><I></I> </DIV><DIV><I>Letters to a Stranger</I> is a new book in the Graywolf Poetry Re/View Series, edited by Mark Doty, dedicated to bringing essential books of contemporary American poetry back into print.</DIV></DIV>