The original and classic The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas is available once again, now with a brilliant new preface by Paul Muldoon. The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas contains poems that Thomas personally decided best represented his work. A year before its publication Thomas died from swelling of the brain triggered by excessive drinking. (A piece of New Directions history: it was our founder James Laughlin who identified Thomas� body at the morgue of St. Vincent�s Hospital.) Since its initial publication in 1953, this book has become the definitive edition of the poet�s work. Thomas wrote �Prologue� addressed to �my readers, the strangers� � an introduction in verse that was the last poem he would ever write. Also included are classics such as �And Death Shall Have No Dominion,� �Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night,� and �Fern Hill� that have influenced generations of artists from Bob Dylan (who changed his last name from Zimmerman in honor of the poet), to John Lennon (The Beatles included Thomas� portrait on the cover of Sgt. Pepper�s Lonely Hearts Club Band); this collection even appears in the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy�s The Road when it is retrieved from the rubble of a bookshelf. And death shall have no dominion. Dead men naked they shall be one With the man in the wind and the west moon; When their bones are picked clean and their clean bones gone, They shall have stars at elbow and foot; Though they go mad they shall be sane, Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again, Though lovers be lost love shall not: And death shall have no dominion. (From �And Death Shall Have No Dominion�)