A collection of 30 years of work, it’s described by fellow poet Joanne Kyger as “always insightful, ardent, playful, right on the spot, and ahead of the current.” Pettet’s talents extend to inspired collaborations, significantly, Talking Pictures, and Conversations About Everything, with filmmaker-photographer Rudy Burckhardt, and Other Flowers: The UnCollected Poems of James Schuyler, co-edited with James Meetze, which is due out from Farrar, Straus, Giroux in 2010.