false <![CDATA[Old Heart: Poems]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1184486956m/1511380.jpg 1511380 1 <B>"Successor to James Wright and John Keats, with a marvelous ear for the music of contemplation."&#151;Rita Dove</B><BR><BR>In his new collection, Stanley Plumly confronts and celebrates mortality&#151;in 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 <I>Old Heart</I>&#151;his finest book of poetry. 1503005 4 9 2007 Old Heart: Poems total:24|5:8|4:8|3:7|2:1|1:0| 24 95 35 3 3 0 false false Wed Nov 12 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 06 09:21:27 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 13 07:27:37 -0800 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Dec 07 17:58:30 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 07 18:01:19 -0800 2008 2 0 false false Sun Jun 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat May 31 11:18:58 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 22 20:20:29 -0700 2008
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