Search Party: Collected Poems of William Matthews

Matthews, William

ISBN 10: 0618350071 / ISBN 13: 9780618350070

Edité par Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004

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The book is complete and readable, with all pages and cover intact. Dust jacket, shrink wrap, or boxed set case may be missing. Pages may have light notes, highlighting, or minor water exposure, but nothing that affects readability. May be an ex-library copy and could include library markings or stickers.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Search Party: Collected Poems of William Matthews
• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Date de parution: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0618350071
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780618350070
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• État de l'article: acceptable

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Synopsis

When William Matthews died of a heart attack in 1997, 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.
With Search Party, his son Sebastian and his friend and fellow poet Stanley Plumly have brought together a collection drawing from all of Matthews’s previously published work as well as twenty-three never-before-published poems. Here are meditations on relationships, work, family life, and, of course, jazz: "I love the smoky libidinal murmur / of a jazz crowd . . . / I like to slouch back / with that I'll-be-here-awhile tilt." Pleasure is abundant in these poems: music, wine, love, and language are, for Matthews, the necessary consolations for life's suffering.
Full of as much wisdom and song as heartbreak and loss, Search Party will bring a wider reading audience to this "poet of experience" and his benedictions of everyday life.