In this collection of new and selected poems, Stanley Plumly moves from the pastoral to the familial, from the mundane to the transcendent. Melodic and firmly rooted in nature, Plumly's Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me: New and Selected Poems 1970-2000 deepens and sharpens the themes of his work. The result is a musical, multifaceted, and deeply moving series of poems-a panoramic view of thirty years of poetic inquiry. With lapidary precision Plumly surveys the range of human emotion and experience. Translating the ...
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In this collection of new and selected poems, Stanley Plumly moves from the pastoral to the familial, from the mundane to the transcendent. Melodic and firmly rooted in nature, Plumly's Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me: New and Selected Poems 1970-2000 deepens and sharpens the themes of his work. The result is a musical, multifaceted, and deeply moving series of poems-a panoramic view of thirty years of poetic inquiry. With lapidary precision Plumly surveys the range of human emotion and experience. Translating the world around us into a language exquisitely attuned to the poignance of the everyday, Plumly confronts grief and joy in half-remembered dreams, the elusive beauty of the past, and the richness and wonder of the present. Whether examining the elaborate courtship of a cluster of redwings, the ineffable pleasure of childhood naps, the Jewish cemetery in Prague, or the death of his father, Plumly exhibits the mastery of a poet at the height of his lyric powers. Plumly dares to examine time-honored objects of beauty in unexpected ways that challenge poetic expectations. What he discovers in these images has made him one of our strongest and most memorable lyricists and places his work within an American tradition that began with Emerson and the best of the transcendentalists. This collection, his most comprehensive to date, exemplifies the American lyric at its finest.
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Cover by Tom Lau. Very Good. pp. 157. 8400 shelf. Slim trade paperback, pictorial moss green covers. Remains of old price sticker back cover. No names, clean text. Dedicated to Daniel Halpern. Blurb: Rita Dove.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. First Edition/printing. Thin black line drawn across bottom edge. No other markings. Minor surface and edge wear to the dust jacket. Deckle edge. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 176 p. Audience: General/trade.
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Good. Size: 9x6x0; 2000 Ecco Press hard cover-1st edition 1st printing-wear to front bottom corner of dust jacket and cover-slight foxing to closed page edge-otherwise dust jacket and cover fine binding strong contents clean-now in mylar cover-enjoy.