Fleet River traces the journey of two travelers through landscapes earthly and otherworldly, following the river as it turns, dips underground, then reemerges unexpectedly as they fall in love with the world, as though for the first time. Mimicking the river's shifting course, the poems revise themselves as the book moves forward, turning against their own best discoveries, proving that the pilgrims' journey is less the discovery of love than the re-creation, poem by poem, of love's possibilities.

James Longenbach is the Joseph Henry Gilmore Professor of English at the University of Rochester. He is the author of four distinguished critical studies of twentieth-century poetry, most recently Modern Poetry after Modernism. His first book of poems, Threshold, was published by the University of Chicago Press.