Editor's Note: At the end of this review are three poems from I Will Not Name It Except to Say that Consequence previously published. Toward the end of I Will Not Name It Except to Say, there is a poem in which Lee Sharkey recapitulates and partially rewrites The Book...
Fred is the author of five books of poetry, the most recent of which is Said Not Said (Graywolf Press). He is also the editor of Another World Instead: The Early Poems of William Stafford (Graywolf), and with Nguyen Ba Chung has co-translated works by several contemporary Vietnamese poets. An emeritus professor of English, he is the Founding Director of the Poetry Center at Suffolk University in Boston.