This book has just been kept on a shelf in storage. Covers have shelf wear. All pages are clean and unwritten on. Very nice copy Poetry. "The cast of characters that inhabit these poems is made up of oddballs and losers--ordinary creatures without any particular glamour. Veinberg's unsentimental empathy embraces them all without a trace of condescension...His vision is a painful one, rendered with uncompromising integrity and never yielding to the sentimentality of nostalgia"--Chase Twichell.