Selected Poems

This contains Aiken's own choice of the best and most representative of his poems, spanning more than forty years of work. Much of Aiken's prose and poetry is out of print, yet his unique influence upon modern writers and critics remains. For this edition, Harold Bloom will contirbute a new foreword to reintroduce Aiken to a new generation of readers. The Aiken estate has selected several pivotal poems from other volumes to add to the reissue, broadening the scope of works that represents his legacy.