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ISBN-10: 1556593813
ISBN-13: 9781556593819
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Publish Date: 06/19/2012
Dimensions: 8.90" L, 5.90" W, 0.70" H

Last Poems

Introduction by: Stephen Dobyns
Afterword by: Brooks Haxton

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Price: $16.00

Overview

Praise for Hayden Carruth:

Something Hayden Carruth does as well as any writer is to treat the reader as a friend, and to provide, through his poetry, hours of good company.–The New York Times Book Review

One of the lasting literary signatures of our time.–Library Journal, starred review

Carruth, like Whitman, like Chaucer, is large–he contains multitudes. Dip into his work anywhere, and there is life–and death–as stirringly felt and cogitated as in some vast, Tolstoyan novel.–Booklist, starred review

Hayden Carruth’s Last Poems is a triumph–a morally engaged, tender, and fearless volume that combines the last poems of his life with the concluding poems from each of his previous volumes. Introduced by Stephen Dobyns, Last Poems is a moving tribute to a towering and beloved figure in American poetry.

From Father’s Day:

I don’t know what fathers are
Supposed to do, although the calendar says
This is Father’s Day. But the day is gloomy
And not at all conducive to visiting or
Celebrating. I know the best thing fathers in
Their prime can do is to make daughters and
More daughters; we can never have enough.
Daughters are our best protection against

Loneliness and the absurd atrocities of
Foreign policy . . .

Hayden Carruth (1921-2008) lived for many years in northern Vermont, then moved to upstate New York, where he taught at Syracuse University. He won the National Book Award for Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey, and his Collected Shorter Poems received the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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Details

ISBN-10: 1556593813
ISBN-13: 9781556593819
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Publish Date: 06/19/2012
Dimensions: 8.90" L, 5.90" W, 0.70" H
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