(includes "no smell")

Larry, revered poet of the interior Planetoidal life, nothing about his adult appearance or habitation has impugned upon such a gladiatorial soul. Only poems, written quietly in a room of his own, often hand-stitched in small personal volumes then hidden in a drawer, revealed his various selves and true essence. True self. Larry did not live in time but in universals--an acute, sensitive nature reaching out boldly from self-referral to a wider fetid world of imagined audience.

("includes no smell") is a milestone in American literary scholarship and an indispensable addition to the personal library of poetry lovers everywhere.