Not So the Chairs, Donald Finkel's fifteenth collection of poems, begins with "In Gratitude," a selection from The Clothing's New Emperor, his first book, published in 1959. In the eighty-five poems that follow there is on every page something for readers to embrace with gratitude. Included with selections from The Clothing's New Emperor, Simeon, A Joyful Noise, The Garbage Wars, A Mote in Heaven's Eye, What Manner of Beast, The Detachable Man, and A Question of Seeing are twenty-nine new poems. Book jacket.