Winner of the 2001 Walt Whitman Award

"With a formal power and clear-eyed purpose, John Canaday's The Invisible World seems to spring fully-formed into the ranks of contemporary poetry. Part travelogue, part cultural study, part spiritual autobiography, it charts its course on a richly internalized journey to the Islamic Middle East. In the course of that journey, its restless, God-haunted narrator takes on, with a fluency steeped in the mythos of the Western literary tradition, such a broad range of cultural and metaphysical issues that a reader must stop to remember that this is a first book of poems. With The Invisible World Canaday makes a remarkably accomplished debut." -Sherod Santos, from his judge's citation

Louisiana State Univ. Press, Paperback, 80 pages.