Richard Eberhart's The Long Reach is a major new collection by one of America's most eminent poets. Now entering his eightieth year, he has brought together recent poems--some unpublished, others that had their first appearance in magazines and small press editions--and added to them works which, for one reason or another, were not included in his previous books. The result is a vigorous, diversified volume by a man whose creative energies have if anything expanded with his years. Eberhart himself has described the book as "a long reach at meanings at manifold meanings, at the wide variety as well as the heights and depths of my consciousness.