Look, Stranger!A book of poems by W. H. Auden, first published under the title Look, Stranger! in the UK in 1936, then published under Auden's preferred title, On this Island, in the US in 1937. It is also the title of one of the poems in the collection. The book contains thirty one poems. The opening "Prologue" ("O Love the interest itself in thoughtless heaven") is followed by short and long poems including "Hearing of harvests", "O what is that sound", "Out on

and criminals collide in the dark streets of Mexico City

In a world very close to our own

and a classic work from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

ONE OF THE BEST HISTORICAL DEBUTS IN RECENT MEMORY

Then Jerome

There is no hope

Ray Klein wins his parole

the grimy bars on the Sunset Strip

By the time he returns home

which stands at the heart of this brave new world

but also about gifts and renewals

no one was sorry