Search Party: Selected Poems

Matthews, William

ISBN 10: 0618350071 / ISBN 13: 9780618350070

Edité par Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2004

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Hardcover. First Edition. xxi, 307pp+ index. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket.

N° de réf. du vendeur 58151

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Search Party: Selected Poems
• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin, Boston
• Date de parution: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0618350071
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780618350070
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de l'article: Very good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Poetry

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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.