KEEP THIS FOREVER

KEEP THIS FOREVER by Halliday, Mark. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781932195729.

Poetry. In this, his fifth book of poems, written in the aftermath of his fathers death, Mark Halliday proves to be one of Americas most intimate poets. Like Frank OHara and Kenneth Koch, Hallidays poems chat with the reader in earnest yet humorous ways and in wholly believable voices. Whether exploring grief or desire or loneliness, these poems never forget the human longing for permanence. "He is prolix and quotidian, a Whitman in a supermarket, a confessional poet who does not take himself very seriously.... His cool patter skewers pomposity..."--The New Yorker. Mark Halliday was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1949, and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina and then in Westport, Connecticut. He earned a B.A. at Brown University, an M.A. in creative writing at Brown, and a Ph.D. in English at Brandeis University. He has taught at Wellesley College, the University of Pennsylvania, Wilmington Friends School, Indiana University, Western Michigan University, and Ohio University.