True Figures by David Blair

True Figures Selected Shorter Poems and Prose Poems1998–2021 One poem per page, sometimes one stanza per page, here is a poet with the range to match the twenty-first century of noise with lyric brevity, humor, horror, shifting language and consciousness. David Blair’s True Figures: New and Selected Shorter Poems and Prose Poems, 1998-2021 collects poems from his first four books of poetry alongside unpublished lyrics and new poems that frame this as a collection with its own themes and logic. Praise for David Blair The poems of David Blair can introduce you to a better and more various and more possible world. Maybe nobody since the days of Schuyler and O’Hara has done so much with such American free verse to bring us, observantly, carefully, to this place, right now. These poems are very good, and internally various as few poets’ midcareer poems have ever been.—Stephanie Burt Like all true poets, David Blair seeks restlessly for a grounding in reality for poetic experience, and like