Poetry. Simultaneously elegant and goofy, the poems in SHINY PENCILS AT THE EDGE OF THINGS depict the quiet moments of life with sophisticated wit and a child's sense of wonder. "At last this hefty retrospective from legendary hermetic Dick Gallup - secret hero of the second generation New York school. Gallup's lines, like his mind, full of sweet surprise, lift us higher, toward his kind, tremulous edge of beautiful 'things.' What a pleasure his jaunty wit, his sure ear, his radical American virtue" - Anne Waldman.