In his tenth book of poems, his first since Selected Poems and Translations 1969 to 1991, William Matthews turns in a fresh direction. In Time & Money, this worldly and ironical poet moves toward an accommodation with life through a maze of losses and loves - music, wine, women, travel, sports, and country pleasures. He enters time as though it were liquid: "Thus water licks its steady way through stone." He writes of musicians who keep time faithfully: "They have to hit the note / and the emotion, both, with the one poor / ...
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In his tenth book of poems, his first since Selected Poems and Translations 1969 to 1991, William Matthews turns in a fresh direction. In Time & Money, this worldly and ironical poet moves toward an accommodation with life through a maze of losses and loves - music, wine, women, travel, sports, and country pleasures. He enters time as though it were liquid: "Thus water licks its steady way through stone." He writes of musicians who keep time faithfully: "They have to hit the note / and the emotion, both, with the one poor / arrow of the voice." And he approaches the realities of money: "Money's not an abstraction; it's math / with consequences, and if it's a kind / of poetry, it's another inexact way, / like time, to measure some sorrow we can't / name." This strong book contains the work of five years by one of the most admired poet-judges, poet-teachers, and poet-participators in this country. Slightly dejected, witty, cynical, yet tolerant, even affectionate, Matthews chooses to tel
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