The poems in the first three sections of this book are from the years 1955-1968 and the poems in the last section are the new work of 1972-1973,The reader might wonder what happened to the years 1969-1971,since the author once did vanish from 1944to 1954 But not this time The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over The Hills contains the ppoems from late 1968 and most of 1969 plus selections from five early chapbooks not covered by the first three sctions of this book Mockingbird Wish Me prints poems written from late 1969to early 1972 So for my critics redaders friends enemies exlovers and nwe lolvers the present volune along with Days and Mockingbird contain what Ilike to condsider my best work written over the past nineteen years.