Now, Swim

Praise for Now, Swim

“Harold Witt locates definitely and works with confidence — even with a confiding… He builds forms… his phrasings accumulate recurrences… He operates from stability… But rather than repeating the advertised public events which our time continually forces at us as being alone of validity and worth, he delivers the local excitements which really make up life.”
— William Stafford, Poetry

“The force of Witt’s poetry lies, first, in the balanced sensitive perception of his imagery, and, second, in his ability to set these images in an appropriately lyrical texture of sound.”
— James Schevill, San Francisco Chronicle

“Mr. Witt is a good man to have around.”
— William Van O’Connor, Saturday Review

About the Author

For many years, Harold Witt published in a wide variety of periodicals, anthologies, texts, and books of his own, among them the anthologies Some Haystacks Don’t Even Have Any Needle, Erotic Poetry, The New Yorker Book of Poems, The New York Times Book of Verse, A Book of Animal Poems, and Our Only Hope is Humor.  His own books include Beasts in Clothes (Macmillan), and Surprised by Others at Fort Cronkhite (Sparrow).