Back Cover -- "The American poet George Evans' three books of poetry were published in England to critical acclaim. Sudden Dreams is his first U.S. collection. He is the recipient of two NEA fellowships, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a California Arts Council Fellowship, and a Japanese government Monbusho Fellowship to study the poetry of Japan, where he lived for two years. A Vietnam veteran, he lives in San Francisco where he edits Streeetfare Journal, a program which puts poetry and art on posters in buses nationwide."