Southern Messenger Poets: Late Wife: Poems (Paperback)

from dasam

Good poetry takes the acutely personal and finds the universal within, or transforms the abstract general into an imagined and believable local. Late Wife is rich in that good poetry. This volume is well-deserving of the honors it has received. It is the finest of confessional poetry, with beauti...

from misirlou

There's a long running joke that any book can be summed up in one sentence. The example that seems to get the most laughs is a college professor summing up The Illiad as "guy comes home from work." It's glib and cute, but the point is that the essence of most books will fit into a single sentence...

from dasam

Good poetry takes the acutely personal and finds the universal within, or transforms the abstract general into an imagined and believable local. Late Wife is rich in that good poetry. This volume is well-deserving of the honors it has received. It is the finest of confessional poetry, with beauti...

from misirlou

There's a long running joke that any book can be summed up in one sentence. The example that seems to get the most laughs is a college professor summing up The Illiad as "guy comes home from work." It's glib and cute, but the point is that the essence of most books will fit into a single sentence...