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New and Selected Poems
Ronald Wallace
ISBN: 9780822958147
Format: Paperback
Publisher:University of Pittsburgh Press
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This collection of Wallace's work contains selections from previous volumes such as "Time's Fancy", along with 26 new poems. While these poems may seem more meditative and complex than some of his other work they never sacrifice his characteristic comic sense and strong emotion.
Long for This World features the best of Ronald Wallace's work from his previous collections of poetry-Plums, Stones, Kisses & Hooks (1981), Tunes for Bears to Dance To (1983), People and Dog in the Sun (1987), The Makings of Happiness (1991), Time's Fancy (1994), and The Uses of Adversity (1998)-along with a generous selection of twenty-six new poems. If Wallace's recent poems sometimes seem darker and deeper, more meditative and complex, less sanguine about the tragedies of daily life, they never sacrifice the comic sense, the synthesis of technical skill and strong emotion, and the sensory immediacy that have become his hallmarks.
| ISBN | 0822958147 | | Volumes | 1 | | ISBN13 | 9780822958147
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 222 | | Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Press | | Published in | Pittsburgh PA | | Imprint | University of Pittsburgh Press | | Series editor | Ochester, Ed, Ochester, Ed | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | Pitt Poetry Series | | Publication date | 31 Mar 2003 | | Height (mm) | 229 | | Library of Congress | PS3573.A43 | | Width (mm) | 152 | | DEWEY | 811.54 | | Spine width (mm) | 9 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly, General | | Pages | 128 | |
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| | | Installing the Bees | | 3 | | | | Oranges | | 4 | | | | One Hook | | 5 | | | | After Being Paralyzed from the Neck Down for Twenty Years, Mr. Wallace Gets a Chin-Operated Motorized Wheelchair | | 6 | | | | Prayer for Flowers | | 7 | | | | Trout | | 8 | | | | Grandmother Grace | | 11 | | | | The Belly Dancer in the Nursing Home | | 13 | | | | The Assistant Professor's Nightmare | | 14 | | | | A Hot Property | | 15 | | | | "You Can't Write a Poem about McDonald's" | | 16 | | | | Picture of Molly, Age 4 | | 18 | | | | 1001 Nights | | 19 | | | | The Facts of Life | | 20 | | | | The Nude Gardener | | 23 | | | | This Night | | 25 | | | | At Chet's Feed & Seed | | 26 | | | | Poem Written Mostly by Fourth Graders | | 27 | | | | Matheny | | 29 | | | | Nightline: An Interview with the General | | 30 | | | | People and Dog in the Sun | | 31 | | | | Early Brass | | 35 | | | | Bluegills | | 36 | | | | Fresh Oysters & Beer | | 37 | | | | Off the Record | | 39 | | | | Fan Mail | | 40 | | | | The Hell Mural: Panel I | | 42 | | | | Building an Outhouse | | 44 | | | | In the Amish Bakery | | 45 | | | | The Fat of the Land | | 46 | | | | The Life Next at Hand | | 51 | | | More... | | |
"What a fine true poet Wallace is!"-May Sarton; "His poems ring with validity."-Richard Hugo; "One of the best poets writing today."-Robert Siegel, Wisconsin Academy Review; "Weds considerable formal command with grace, passion, intelligence, and wit."-Publishers Weekly; "Wallace has an inventive and witty imagination which takes him into all sorts of surprising directions.... Best of all, [his poetry] is exuberantly alive."-Lisel Mueller; "A poetry accessible to the general reader: a flexible, idiomatic language capable of moving from lighthearted spoofing to grim pessimism, sometimes all in the same short poem."-Fred Eckman  Be the first to write a customer review
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