Over the past fifty years William Walden's poems?collected here for the first time?have been widely published in the United States and England. In the tradition of Ogden Nash, Walden appeals to both literary and popular sensibilities. His poems elevate the humble and deflate the pompous, celebrate quotidian truths and debunk accepted ones. Incisive and humorous, Walden is a conversational and companionable poet, a wry observer who brings everyman's eyes and ears to the complexities of modern life and culture while offering a wink and a nod to the literati.