Title: Work, for the Night Is coming
First published: 1980
Description: This is Jared Carter's first collection of poems.  In 1980 it received the Walt Whitman Award, from the Academy of American Poets, an award that is given annually for a first book of original poems.  It was published by Macmillan in 1981 and went through two reprintings.  A second edition was issued in 1995 by the Cleveland State University Poetry Center.
Subjects: poetry, poems, Indiana, Midwestern, Mississinewa, geodes, birdstone, American poetry
Places: Mississinewa County, Indiana (an imaginary place); Round Rock, Texas;
People: Sam Bass, Oliver P. Morton, John Dillinger, Morgan's Raiders, John Hunt Morgan
Time periods: American Midwest 1860 to the present