Leroy V. Quintana is a major force in contemporary poetry. His work is endowed not only with a raucous frontier humor, but also a remarkable emotional range, from comic depictions of adolescent love to moving poems of death and loss, to reflections on his war experience in Vietnam. "It was about 1958 or so when we finally got a phone,/ but the only girl I had enough nerve to call/ was the one who seemed to whisper, faithfully/ as well as exactly, what time it was, any time I called" -- "Faithfully as Well as Exactly".
