Search Party: Collected PoemsHMH, 05.04.2005 - 336 Seiten From the prize-winning poet: “A stunning volume . . . A master of the understatement, Matthews is wryly philosophical and self-deprecating.” —Booklist When William Matthews died, the day after his fifty-fifth birthday, America lost one of its most important poets, one whose humor and wit were balanced by deep emotion, whose off-the-cuff inventiveness belied the acuity of his verse. Drawing from his eleven collections and including twenty-three previously unpublished poems, Search Party is the essential compilation of this beloved poet's work. Edited by his son, Sebastian Matthews, and William Matthews's friend and fellow poet Stanley Plumly (who also introduces the book), Search Party is an excellent introduction to the poet and his glistening riffs on twentieth-century topics from basketball to food to jazz. |
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Sleek for the Long Flight | 21 |
Sticks Stones | 43 |
Rising and Falling | 57 |
Flood | 87 |
Uncollected Poems 19671981 | 113 |
A Happy Childhood | 133 |
Foreseeable Futures | 173 |
Blues If You Want | 189 |
Time Money | 219 |
Uncollected Poems 19821977 | 257 |
After All | 277 |
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ball beautiful beer blue Blue Nude body shaken body’s breath called can’t childhood Coleman Hawkins couldn’t dark dead death Denver Zoo didn’t dreaming of love drunk dusk dust eyes face father feel feet fire glass grew grow hair hand hate he’s hear heart Janis Joplin jokes knew leave Lester Young light live look Lord Howe Island Matthews’s memory Mingus mother never night nurse shark pale Peter Davison play poems poet poetry rage rain remember river road Russell Banks Sassetta shadow shaken and sick shark silence sleep slick slithers slur snow leopards Stanley Plumly story sweat talk tell There’s they’re things thought tiny tongue tree tumor turn wake watch we’re what’s who’d wind window word wrong you’re