How We All Swiftly: The First Six Books brings together the best of Don Coles's early work, from the long- unavailable poems in Sometimes All Over (1975), Anniversaries (1979), and The Prinzhorn Collection (1982) to much-acclaimed book-length poems K in Love (1987) and Little Bird (1991). With an incisive introduction by critic and professor emeritus W.J. Keith, this overdue reissue of Coles's career-defining collections-collections whose austere, tender, insouciant, sad-lit clarity reinvented Canadian poetry-will allow readers to glimpse the evolution and shaping of a major career.
How We All Swiftly will be the first volume in a celebratory two-part overview of Don Coles's literary writings.