All Roads at Once

“The poems in this beautiful first volume are meditations on time, in a contemporary urban setting. Alfred Corn tracks the elusive present through the forest of particulars of ‘daily’ life. This is a brilliant beginning.” —John Ashbery “As a coda I offer the best first book of poems this year.... Alfred Corn’s All Roads at Once.” —Harold Bloom, The New Republic “Airy, all‑seeing, a new window onto the world—this is an extremely beautiful first book. Among Mr. Corn’s contemporaries I know of no poet more accomplished.” —James Merrill