A definitive treasury of poetry by the award-winning late poet includes works from his eleven previous collections, as well as never-before-published poems, that explore the great pleasures--love, music, wine, and language--that serve as consolation for life's sufferings.
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William Matthews won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1995 and the Ruth Lilly Award of the Modern Poetry Association in 1997. Born in Cincinnati in 1942, he was educated at Yale University and the University of North Carolina. At the time of his death in 1997, he was a professor of English and director of the writing program at the City University of New York.
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