<DIV>This is the first book in the Pitt Poetry Series by this popular and enigmatic poet, considered the foremost writer of prose poetry in America. In eleven collections over thirty years, Edson has created his own poetic genre, a surreal philosophical fable, easy to enter, but difficult to leave behind. In <I>The Tormented Mirror</I>, Edson continues and refines his form in seventy-three new poems.<BR></DIV>