After All
Last Poems
A collection from one of the few contemporary poets who really knew how to make the vernacular sing (Library Journal). In this collection of poems completed shortly before his death, William Matthews seems to be looking his last on all things lovely: music, food and wine, love. In the stunning central poem, Dire Cure, which forms a kind of spine to the book, he describes the remarkable implications of the heroic measures that saved the life and restored the health of his wife from a children's cancer (doesn't that possessive break your heart?). He evokes the death of his favorite jazz musician, Charles Mingus. He speaks of cats, dogs, pigs,…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-544-10168-5
- EAN: 9780544101685
- Produktnummer: 27880916
- Verlag: Mariner Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 64 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 256 KB
Über den Autor
William Matthews won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1995 and the Ruth Lilly Award of the Modern Poetry Association in 1997. Born in Cincinnati in 1942, he was educated at Yale University and the University of North Carolina. At the time of his death in 1997, he was a professor of English and director of the writing program at the City University of New York.
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