Charles Baxter says of David Wolf`s first collection, OPEN SEASON (first published in 1999 and now available in a revised second edition): `The slightly sour sweetness of David Wolf`s poetry gives this book its distinction. There is a terrific epigrammatic concision at work here, which works to convert the cultural and romantic sites of bitterness and weariness into something else: a blessedness that does not quite arrive on the scene but keeps suggesting itself offstage. OPEN SEASON is a fascinating and memorable book of poems, haunted by the distant possibility of happiness all the way through.`