As My Age Then Was, So I Understood Them : New and Selected Poems, 1981-2020

As My Age Then Was, So I Understood Them : New and Selected Poems, 1981-2020

White Pine Press

A career-spanning volume drawn from forty years of work and a selection of new poems.\nStephen Corey\u2019s work is intelligent, moving and engaging. Poem after poem is beautiful, effortless, and thought-provoking. The range of style and subject matter, the depth of thought and emotion, the elegance and resonance and simplicity of language, the affectionate voice and tone\u2014all work to make this a truly important and memorable book.\n\u201CHere is a life, and a life, and / a life,\u201D Stephen Corey writes in the opening poem\u2019s instructions to on how find the faded leaf\u2014also a metaphor for the end of life\u2014that one must imagine still colored after he is \u201Cgone.\u201D The poem is echoed near the end of this stunningly rich and encompassing book in a poem addressed to his four daughters about what he has missed\n\nAs My Age Then Was, So I Understood Them\nNew and Selected Poems, 1981-2020\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with fre;

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