A series of poems traces the course of a love affair from both the man's and the woman's point of view.

The Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century contains over 400 entries that treat a broad range of individual poets and poems, along with many articles devoted to topics, schools, or periods of American verse in the century. Entries fall into three main categories: poet entries, which provide biographical and cultural contexts for the author's career; entries on individual works, which offer closer explication of the most resonant poems in the 20th-century canon; and topical entries, which offer analyses of a given period of literary production, school, thematically constructed category, or other verse tradition that historically has been in dialogue with the poetry of the United States.

This volume presents 12 critical essays on various aspects of Grossman's work by such well-known critics as Maeera Shreiber and Norman Finkelstein. It also includes a substantial new essay by essay by Grossman on his own poetics, as well as Daniel Morris's introduction exploring the significance of Grossman's poetic oeuvre.