Long For This World by Ronald Wallace
Long for This World includes twenty-six new poems from this master of the sonnet and other traditional forms, along with selections from his six previous collections. This book exemplifies the comic sense, the synthesis of technical skill and strong emotion, and the sensory immediacy that have become Ronald Wallace's hallmarks.-
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
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Picnic, Lightning
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Questions about Angels
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The Art Of Drowning
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Flying At Night
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Be Holding
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Satan Says
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Words for Empty and Words for Full
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Winter Stars
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Milk Black Carbon
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The Selected Levis
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Bonfire Opera
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with snow pouring southward past the window
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That Ship Has Sailed
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Central Air
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Imperial
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Noose and Hook
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Skid
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Elegy
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The Dirt She Ate
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Little Girls In Church
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Instructions for My Mother's Funeral
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Love and Strange Horses
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A Defense Of Poetry
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First Course In Turbulence
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City Of Salt
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Leaping Poetry
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The Widening Spell of the Leaves
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Emplumada
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Black Swan
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Wild Hundreds
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Journey
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no time like now
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City of a Hundred Fires
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The Essential Etheridge Knight
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This Clumsy Living
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Insomnia Diary
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Bringing the Shovel Down
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Weather Central
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The Selected Reginald Shepherd
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Elegy On Toy Piano
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Sure Signs
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Looking for The Gulf Motel
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The Starry Messenger
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Capricorn in Flux
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Pink Lady
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
Ronald Wallace is the author of seven previous books of poetry, including: Long for This World: New and Selected Poems; The Uses of Adversity; Time's Fancy; People and Dog in the Sun; and The Makings of Happiness. His works of literary criticism include: God Be with the Clown: Humor in American Poetry; The Last Laugh: Form and Affirmation in the Contemporary American Comic Novel; and Henry James and the Comic Form. Wallace is Halls-Bascom Professor of English, Felix Pollak Professor of Poetry, and codirector of the creative writing program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780822958147 |
| ISBN 10 | 0822958147 |
| Title | Long For This World |
| Author | Ronald Wallace |
| Series | Pitt Poetry Series |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Year published | 2003-03-16 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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