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Against Sunset
Stanley Plumly
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Description for Against Sunset
Hardback. A powerful new volume from the National Book Award finalist that demonstrates how the lyric is essentially elegiac. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 250.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393253948
SKU
V9780393253948
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About Stanley Plumly
Stanley Plumly (1939–2019) authored eleven books of poetry, including the National Book Award finalist Old Heart, and four books of nonfiction. His honors include the Paterson Poetry Prize and Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism, among others. Plumly was a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland as well Maryland’s poet laureate from 2009 to 2018.
Reviews for Against Sunset
"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 ... Read more