Gwynn R.S. The Drive-in

Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1986. – ISBN: 978-0-8262-0602-2.Robert Samuel "Sam" Gwynn, a University Professor at Lamar University, is an American poet and anthologist associated with New Formalism. Dana Gioia, poet and former chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, about the author wrote: "Gwynn is ingeniously funny and an effortless master of verse forms. No American poet of his generation has written better sonnets, and very few can equal him in the ballade, couplet, rondeau, or pantoum – not to mention the half dozen new forms he has invented; Gwynn juxtaposes styles and subjects not customarily seen together – mythic and modish images phrased in language alternatively sublime and debased – but told with such force of imagination and assured musicality that the resulting poems seem not idiosyncratic but inevitable."(OCR)