Choosing a Guest New and Selected Poems Author:Michael Schmidt Michael Schmidt's last collection of poems, `A Change of Affairs' (1978), was described by Peter Scupham in the TLS as `a work of depth and intensity, spartan in the clarity and purity of its imagery'. `Choosing a Guest' contains his poems written since `A Change of Affairs', together with those poems he especially wants to preserve from his ... more »earlier collections.« less