Hayden Carruth"s "From Snow and Rock, from Chaos" — his first book since "For You" (1970) — contains a selection of his best short poems written between 1965 and 1972. Once again, the setting for many of the pieces is the Green Mountains of Vermont, where the poet and his family have lived for several years. A member of the editorial board of "The Hudson Review" and a regular contributor to numerous periodicals, he is the editor of the recent comprehensive paperbook anthology "The Voice That Is Great Within Us: American Poetry of the Twentieth Century" (1970).