Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 1896860826, Paperback)

A lifeès extraordinary work, Collected Poems by Eldon Grier is a penultimate work by a poet who has always maintained high standards. The publication of Eldon Grier's Collected Poems is a major literary event by this painter/turned poet. In lyrical sketches he provides a portrait, with a painters eye, of the last half of the 20thcentury, and all of his major poems in on e volume, he reveals himself to be a mjor Canadian poet with affinities to the icons of world literature, Apollinaire, Neruda, and Reverdy.