Middle Distance

Poems

Middle Distance
Stanley Plumly
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11 Mar 2022 US
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9780393882490
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After a diagnosis of cancer, acclaimed poet Stanley Plumly found himself in the middle distance-looking back at his childhood in Ohio and a rich lifetime of family and friends, while gazing into a future shaped by the press of mortality. In Middle Distance, his final collection, he pushed onward into new territory in extended hybrid forms and revelatory prose pieces. Blending documentary and memoir with his signature Keatsian lyricism, he contemplated at every turn the horizons of his life. From "White Rhino" How long a life is too long, as I take my time from here to there, the one world dried- out distances, nose, horn, my great head lifted down, the tonnage of my heart almost more than I can carry . . .
"In these beautiful pages, his last gift to us, Stanley Plumly has gathered his beloveds in a single space: the landscapes, the poets, the light of evening, and ' the one true angel' of childhood. In poems so easy with cadence you might almost imagine that nature herself had invented the stately stanzas and the five-beat line. In prose so rapt with noticing you can almost believe the page remembers the tree it was. This is the poet' s final blessing: to hold the precious world in two good hands and say goodbye. " -- Linda Gregerson "When Stanley Plumly died of cancer on April 11, 2019, I reread everything I could get my hands on, from In the Outer Dark to Against Sunset; the beautiful prose books, too. Nothing, or everything, prepared me for his Middle Distance. Scary, forthright, complete, by necessity in lines and in prose, Middle Distance is the book of Stan. " -- James Longenbach
Stanley Plumly (1939-2019) authored eleven books of poetry, including the National Book Award finalist and Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner Old Heart. He was also the author of four books of nonfiction, including Elegy Landscapes and The Immortal Evening, winner of the Truman Capote Prize for Literary Criticism. His other honors include the Paterson Poetry Prize and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He was Maryland' s poet laureate from 2009 to 2018.
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ISBN-13: 9780393882490
Published: 11 Mar 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Paperback
Height: 211mm
Width: 137mm
Spine: 8mm
Weight: 82g
Pages: 96

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