Counterpoint, the first full collection of poems by David Alpaugh, was
selected out of over 800 manuscripts for the seventh annual Nicholas
Roerich Poetry Prize by Story Line Press in 1994. The subjects of the
book's contemporary, witty, bizarre, and often moving poems range from
POWs and salespeople to art and the dead. Alpaugh's works speak to one
another--child to adult, animal to human, ad man to poet, New Jersey to
California, and past to present. He writes with affection and care for
each of these points of unlikely connection. Harold Witt called Alpaugh
"a unique voice to hear now and to listen for in the future." More than
twenty-five years after Counterpoint's initial publication, these
words ring more true than ever.