Mr. Bedient has followed up his powerful first collection, _Candy Necklace_, with the startling and lovely book _The Violence of the Morning_, which won the Contemporary Poetry Series Competition from the University of Georgia Press. His gracefully complex poems can be richly sensual, deliciously playful, and fearlessly loving and mournful--"Who accepts breath is sacrifice. / Who sings / sings worlds frightened and dear." Lucy Brock-Broido declared, "There is no one writing like Cal Bedient." We certainly agree.