{"product_id":"last-poems-paperback-1","title":"Last Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHayden Carruth\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eStephen Dobyns\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by), \u003cb\u003eBrooks Haxton\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Hayden Carruth: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Something Hayden Carruth does as well as any writer is to treat the reader as a friend, and to provide, through his poetry, hours of good company.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"One of the lasting literary signatures of our time.\"--\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Carruth, like Whitman, like Chaucer, is large--he contains multitudes. Dip into his work anywhere, and there is life--and death--as stirringly felt and cogitated as in some vast, Tolstoyan novel.\"--\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHayden Carruth's \u003ci\u003eLast Poems\u003c\/i\u003e is a triumph--a morally engaged, tender, and fearless volume that combines the last poems of his life with the concluding poems from each of his previous volumes. Introduced by Stephen Dobyns, \u003ci\u003eLast Poems\u003c\/i\u003e is a moving tribute to a towering and beloved figure in American poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"Father's Day\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI don't know what fathers are\u003cbr\u003eSupposed to do, although the calendar says\u003cbr\u003eThis is \"Father's Day.\" But the day is gloomy\u003cbr\u003eAnd not at all conducive to visiting or\u003cbr\u003eCelebrating. I know the best thing fathers in\u003cbr\u003eTheir prime can do is to make daughters and\u003cbr\u003eMore daughters; we can never have enough.\u003cbr\u003eDaughters are our best protection against \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLoneliness and the absurd atrocities of\u003cbr\u003eForeign policy . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHayden Carruth\u003c\/b\u003e (1921-2008) lived for many years in northern Vermont, then moved to upstate New York, where he taught at Syracuse University. He won the National Book Award for \u003ci\u003eScrambled Eggs \u0026amp; Whiskey\u003c\/i\u003e, and his \u003ci\u003eCollected Shorter Poems\u003c\/i\u003e received the National Book Critics Circle Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHayden Carruth: Hayden Carruth (1921-2008) lived for many years in northern Vermont, then moved to upstate New York, where he taught in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University. He published dozens of books of poetry, a novel, four books of criticism, and two anthologies. Carruth won the 1996 National Book Award for \u003ci\u003eScrambled Eggs \u0026amp; Whiskey, \u003c\/i\u003e and his \u003ci\u003eCollected Shorter Poems: 1946-1991\u003c\/i\u003e received the National Book Critics Circle Award. He served as the editor of \u003ci\u003ePoetry, \u003c\/i\u003e poetry editor of \u003ci\u003eHarper's, \u003c\/i\u003e and for twenty-five years an advisory editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Hudson Review.\u003c\/i\u003e The Bollingen, Guggenheim, and Lannan Foundations, as well as the National Endowment for the Arts, awarded fellowships to Carruth, and he earned the Lenore Marshall\/The Nation Prize, the Paterson Poetry Prize, the Vermont Governor's Medal, the Carl Sandburg Award, the Whiting Award, and the Ruth Lily Prize. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStephen Dobyns: Stephen Dobyns was born in Orange, New Jersey, in 1941. He graduated from Wayne State University and has an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. Dobyns has published ten books of poetry and twenty-one novels, including the popular \"Saratoga\" crime novels. Dobyns has worked as a reporter for the \u003ci\u003eDetroit News\u003c\/i\u003e and has taught at the University of Iowa, Sarah Lawrence College, Warren Wilson College, Syracuse University, and Boston University. Among his many honors and awards are fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. Stephen Dobyns lives in Rhode Island with his wife and three children. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 120\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 19, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50413684359405,"sku":"9781556593819","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/products\/last-poems-paperback-1","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}