Two American poets named E.A. Robinson are "in different ways" here in this single book, though one died before the other was born. What we have is, in fact, an extended example of the bout rimé, that restraint well known and widely practiced many years before the Oulipo. The end rhymes are by the author of "Richard Cory" and "Miniver Cheevy" (neither of these, I think, among the chosen), each line then, up to the rhyme word, supplied by the later, very alive, E.A. If you're inclined to distrust such a trick, disregard it; you've come upon a good book of poems.
Inaudible Trumpeters
