“‘All of us are in transit,’ says one line of this beautiful, luminous volume of new poems. Night Train to Memphis gives us new, powerful work, the artistry and sheer eloquence of a poet who, in his eighties, is writing the best poetry of his life—and the poetry of his youth and middle age remains as fine as anything we have. Yet Night Train is an advance on it all, a gift, profoundly pleasurable and wayfaring in the best ways, each poem like a ‘bird of astonishing colors,’ and somehow, reading through the separate journeys out, we are given a strangely consoling, happily renewing vision inward, even as that vision dares to face terrible realities:. This is a great book. I loved it and I will be trumpeting its virtues far and wide.”   —Richard Bausch, author of Peace and Living in the Weather of the World

Richard Tillinghast’s latest book, Blue If Only I Could Tell You, won the 2022 White Pine Press Poetry Prize. Night Train to Memphis is his 14th poetry collection, in addition to five books of creative nonfiction. His poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Paris Review, The New Republic, The Best American Poetry and elsewhere. He is recipient of the Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholarship as well as grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Richard currently lives in Hawaii and spends his summers in Tennessee.