Time and Money: New Poems - Hardcover

Matthews, William

 
9780395711347: Time and Money: New Poems

Synopsis

A new collection by a worldly and cynical writer addresses his lifetime losses and loves, offering his observations on such topics as musicians ("They have to hit the note/and the emotion") and money ("it's math/with consequences").

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Review

"It is a meditation on loss and grace that some of us will be thinking about for a long time."

"his new work is inlaid with an even deeper vein of irony and shaped by an even surer command of language, ..." Booklist, ALA
"It is a meditation on loss and grace that some of us will be thinking about for a long time." Amazon.com

About the Author

William Matthews won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1995 and the Ruth Lilly Award of the Modern Poetry Association in 1997. Born in Cincinnati in 1942, he was educated at Yale University and the University of North Carolina. At the time of his death in 1997, he was a professor of English and director of the writing program at the City University of New York.

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ISBN 10:  0395825261 ISBN 13:  9780395825266
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 1996
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