viii, 62 pp. Fine book and dj, but that someone has written 'London' on the fore-edge. Baumel's poems have appeared in Agni, The American Poetry Review, The Antioch Reivew, The Harvard Advocate, Boulevard, The Denver Quarterly, Gradiva, The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Parnassus, Pequod, Ploughshares, and Prometheus. 'They were decisive icy fingers / of geology class brought home, stretching / into the parkway.'--from Roches Moutonnees. 1987 recipient of the Walt Whitman Award from the American Academy of Poets. Baumel has been director of the Poetry Society of America, she won a poetry fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has been a lecturer at Harvard University, Boston University, and City College of New York.