from Occidental Domestication Comedies: The Lilies of the Field Know Which Side Their Bread Is Buttered On, The Chariot, The Elementary Inventions of the Species, Low Comic Requiem Mass for Loners and Exiles

William Harmon is the author of five volumes of poetry. He teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His tenth book, What Rhymes, is about the art of poetry. It will be published by the Columbia University Press in 1989. (updated 1988)