Old Heart: Poems

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"Successor to James Wright and John Keats with a marvelous ear for the music of contemplation."Rita Dove In his new collection Stanley Plumly confronts and celebrates mortalityin the detailed natural world in the immediacy of the loss of friends and in personal encounters. Archetypal sometimes even allegorical the poems in Old Heart amount to a sustained meditation. The American Academy of Arts and Letters declared of Plumly that "he has in the last thirty years quietly steadily expanded the range of lyric poetry in English...and reinvigorated our poetry." His ethical rigor and literary modesty combine in Old Hearthis finest book of poetry.