Roads of Bread

This book is a collection of four volumes of poetry by Pulitzer Prize- nominee, Eugene Ruggles, a widely admired California "deep image" poet born in Michigan. Cover tributes are from Muriel Ruckeyser, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Sharon Dubiago. Sonoma County Poet Laureate, Mike Tuggle describes Ruggles as a poet "gifted with language and a vision," who believed in poetry as a "testament and a witness to truth, love and justice." Only one of these volumes (The Lifeguard in the Snow, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1977) was previously published; the rest were discovered at his death.