Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louis Simpson's newest volume of poetry, 'Searching for the Ox,' hearlds a literary event of the highest order. The poems here all have a strong narrative structure, and at the same time they are beautifully lyrical, evocative of times, places, and moods as strikingly different as the 1930's in tropical Kingston harbor and windy, wintry afternoons on postwar Riverside Drive. Like the masters of Zen, Mr. Simpson celebrates the everyday things that give the world color, shape, and reason; he conveys the essence of an experience through his observation of small details.--