false 1000 1 0 574397 061856585X 9780618565856 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175919271m/574397.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175919271s/574397.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/574397.Search_Party_Collected_Poems 4.47 49 1000 4.12 191 6 1982 666866 0395825261 9780395825266 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176932778m/666866.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176932778s/666866.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/666866.Time_Money 4.03 31 Time and Money, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. It is a meditation on loss and grace that some of us will be thinking about for a long time. "Bob Marley's Hair," which discusses the famed musician's dreadlocks falling out during chemotherapy, is as poignant as, well, "Babe Ruth at the End," the story of Ruth on his deathbed. The real gem, though, is "Dead Languages," a study in how, to use Frost's expression, "way leads on to way." Matthews tosses out fascinating examples of how words have evolved, how "Live English lugs a dead language inside." The way language mutates its way through the world, unconscious of its own changes, Matthews writes, isn't far from our own dimly understood lives: "We did what we did, we're / not proud nor ashamed, we led our lives / or they led us, and how would we know which?"]]> 1000 4.12 191 6 1995 1100559 0395669936 9780395669938 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180985628m/1100559.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180985628s/1100559.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1100559.Selected_Poems_and_Translations_1969_1991 4.00 19 Rising and Falling, the late William Matthews's poem "Foul Shots: A Clinic" uses basketball as an analogy to discuss the relationship between craft and genius, practice and performance. After a technical discussion of stance, aim, and so on, Matthews writes: "Ignore this part of the clinic / and shoot 200 foul shots / every day. Teach yourself not to be / bored by any boring one of them. / You have to love to do this / and chances are you don't." Matthews, much beloved and admired by fellow poets, had in his work an enviable blend of craft and inspiration, a jazzman's flow and an architect's precision. Selected Poems and Translations, which includes his best work culled from more than 20 years of writing, is the best starting point for readers interested in Matthews's remarkable career. ]]> 1000 4.12 191 6 1992 773284 0472067737 9780472067732 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178224491m/773284.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178224491s/773284.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/773284.The_Poetry_Blues_Essays_and_Interviews 4.43 7 the Poetry Blues, the late William Matthews holds forth on a medley of topics ranging from jazz to nude photography, Byron to Elizabeth Bishop, opera to Emerson. Throughout, Matthews writes about his love of music, language, poetry, and art while illuminating the subtle and important ways in which the things about which he feels passionately help to define and shape him.
</div><div>The book begins with a candid autobiographical essay, followed by an interview on the influence of jazz music on the poet's early work. Further into the collection, Matthews delves into the nature of the epigram and the work of jazz great Charles Mingus. Along the way, this revered poet offers insight into the work of this contemporaries, including W. S. Merwin, Galway Kinnell, Hayden Carruth, and Richard Hugo.
</div><div>the book is as much autobiography and cultural criticism as it is literary nonfiction. It will be of interest to writers and teachers of writing, as well as to lovers of literature, language and music.
</div><div>Sebastian Matthews teaches writing at Warren Wilson College. Stanley Plumly is Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland.
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