At long last his collected works are available in a handsome volume from Empty Bowl. TOO LATE TO TURN BACK NOW gathers all of Wilcox's hard-to-find, out-of-print and limited-edition books and adds a generous selection of new poems and prose pieces. Included is Wilcox's widely praised first book, Here Among the Sacrificed, a collection of poems, stories and short prose coming from the poet's experiences riding freight trains. It rings with the clang and gritty dust of America's freight yards, and takes a compassionate look at the hobos who ride, heirs of a Depression-era community who, in a metaphoric and very real sense, were "dropped off on a side-track." In "The Boneyards" the poet, camped by an abandoned warehouse outside Mason City, Iowa, echoes Kenneth Rexroth and offers a playful nod to West Coast nature poems. Love, travel, friendship, adventure, misadventure and loss. Wilcox strikes universal chords in a fresh and accessible way. His poems and stories come comfortably dressed for any season, neatly packed and ready for the journey. Finn Wilcox distills for readers of off-the-road literature the sweet wine and tangy whiskey of his earlier books, and adds a healthy supply of new Wilcox work. This collection demands to be read to your beloveds, to your children and parents. An elegant tour de force by a devoted artist, here's a book shaped by the precision and compassion for which Finn is loved among workers of the word, and of the woods and sea.