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Poems deal with walks, leaves, starlings, flowers, aging, faithfulness, spring, childhood and travel
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Stanley Plumly was born in Barnesville, Ohio, in 1939, and grew up in the lumber and farming regions of Virginia and Ohio. His work has been honored with the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award and nominations for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the William Carlos Williams Award, and the Academy of Amerian Poets' Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. He is currently a Distinguished University Professor and Professor of English at the University of Maryland.
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"Language is a darkness pulled out of us" writes Plumly in a jarring poem titled "Infidelity," in which a child witnesses his mother being pushed out of a car by an angry (or jealous) spouse. And indeed it's the inner darkness that prompts the best work here, poems that face mortality and transmit the sense that life is the eerie, momentary shudder of a soul through a body that we may or may not be lucky enough to notice. Though now and then Plumly still resorts to familiar, shopworn imagery--wildflowers, birds, "blue air"--he more than compensates in the title poem (a string of 14 sonnets weaving echoes of the Holocaust with the clearing of a forest), "Pityriasis Rosea" (on a symptom of AIDS), and "Early and Late in the Month" (a surprisingly vivid meditation on the "industrial light/ of London").
- Fred Muratori, Cornell Univ. Lib.
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