books.google.com - Selected by Peter Davison with an introduction by Edward Hirsch. Sissman was a true phenomenon in American poetry. He published his first book, a collection of antic, autobiographical episodes in blank verse, in 1968. Eight years and three books later, he died of Hodgkin's disease at the age of forty-eight....http://books.google.com/books/about/Night_music.html?id=3hQmgHfmY1sC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareNight music
