Against Sunset : Poems by Stanley Plumly (2016, Hardcover)
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Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393253945
ISBN-13
9780393253948
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219686098
Product Key Features
Book Title
Against Sunset : Poems
Number of Pages
112 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, American / General
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Poetry
Format
Hardcover
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9 Oz
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0.8 in
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0.6 in
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2016-022703
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For decades now, Stanley Plumly has extended, refined, and amplified the Grand Tradition of the lyric poem in English. He crafts his poems with a jeweler's precision, but they are also informed with an almost-leonine urgency and passion. This degree of artistry is sadly rare in contemporary poetry, and it allows him to bear, always with nobility, the losses and rueful reckonings that are forced upon us in our twilight years. These poems recall the later Stevens and the later Yeats--and to say this is high praise indeed. Against Sunset is a collection by a contemporary master., The elm, the brickwork, the late-night bottle of wine with a friend, all that you have ever wished to store against oblivion: may these be blessed with light of the sort that emanates from every page of Stanley Plumly's newest book. The poems are sonnet-haunted, even those that bear no trace of eight-and-six, with such deep courtesy do they honor the intelligence of form. I go to Stanley Plumly's poems as they go to the past, to be taught how I ought to live.
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A powerful new volume from the National Book Award finalist that demonstrates how the lyric is essentially elegiac., Whether addressing the deaths of friends and other poets or celebrating the closing of the day and the autumn of the seasons, Against Sunset reveals Stanley Plumly at his most personal and intimate. As much an homage to the rich tradition of the Romantics as it is a meditation on memory itself, these poems live at the edges of disappearances. From "Against Sunset" The horizon, halfway disappeared between above and below- night falls too or does it also rise out of the death-glitter of water? And if night is the long straight path of the full moon pouring down on the face of the deep, what makes us wish we could walk there, like a flat skipped stone?, Whether addressing the deaths of friends and other poets or celebrating the closing of the day and the autumn of the seasons, Against Sunset reveals Stanley Plumly at his most personal and intimate. As much an homage to the rich tradition of the Romantics as it is a meditation on memory itself, these poems live at the edges of disappearances. From "Against Sunset" The horizon, halfway disappeared between above and below-- night falls too or does it also rise out of the death-glitter of water? And if night is the long straight path of the full moon pouring down on the face of the deep, what makes us wish we could walk there, like a flat skipped stone?
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PS3566.L78A6 2017
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