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Carregando... For a Limited Time Only (Pitt Poetry Series)de Ronald Wallace
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Wallace writes about the issues of aging and illness. As a person battling RA, I completely identify with his work. This is one of the best books of poetry that I have ever read. ( ) Aging, loss, pain, dentists, and barbers are just a few of the topics covered in this collection of poems by Ronald Wallace. Even the former planet Pluto makes an appearance! Wallace’s poems are heartbreaking, funny, and so true. In Out Walking, we watch as a father and daughter take a walk down memory lane – literally. The poem describes the daughter trying to help her father remember the past as well as his daughter. In Caution, Wallace steps on cracks, runs with scissors, doesn’t look before he leaps, and says “Stand back! I’m taking my chances.” One of the takeaways from this collection of poems is to embrace life’s experiences – all of them – and take some chances along the way. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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For a Limited TIme Only, Ronald Wallace's eighth collection of poems, is perhaps his darkest and most meditative to date, focusing his experiences with illness, old age, and mortality; his father-in-law's death after a long bout with Alzheimer's; his step-father's death after a painful struggle with esophageal cancer, his own bout with prostate cancer. These personal experiences form the core of the first three sections of the book, but are mediated by theological and philosophical speculations that find further voice in the character of a "Mr. Grim," whose angry, self-pitying, gruff, comic, self-depreciating, nostalgic, defeated, and hopeful riffs on the human condition provide a bridge to the affirmative, often comic, close. In the final two sections, in poems in praise of his dentist, his barber, his wife, his grandparents, the morpheme, Mr. Malaprop, Pluto, tattoos, hamburger heaven, sex talk, and poetry itself, Wallace once again proves the resilience of hope and humor in what is, for him, finally a world of wonders. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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