The Movie At The End Of The World, is a collection of poems written over the past three decades or so that the author wishes to preserve for a contemporary audience. As Franklin Brainard recently pointed out in his review of this book in The Minnesota Daily, McGrath could have profited greatly by "trimming" the contents, by weeding out the less significant poems and thereby giving the reader a leaner, but stronger, collection in terms of the over-all result. But I must agree further with Brainard's assessment that if one reads the book from cover to cover and judges it as a book, the results will be very rewarding. McGrath's efforts over this long span of time reveal a highly accomplished poet, a craftsman of hitherto unrecognized, but considerable, ability—whose reputation is confirmed as among those ten or twelve American poets writing today who should be considered...