The Makings of Happiness (Pitt Poetry Series) - Softcover

Wallace, Ronald

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9780822954484: The Makings of Happiness (Pitt Poetry Series)
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ISBN 10: 0822954486 ISBN 13: 9780822954484
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991

Synopsis

Wallace’s poems cover the range of human experience: music, religion, sex, art, childhood, adolescence, nuclear war, illness, and death. But it’s in his wit and good humor, against undercurrents of sorrow and grief that best characterize his poetry: part Emily Dickinson, and part Harpo Marx; part Woody Allen, and part Robert Frost.

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About the Author

Ronald Wallace is the author of seven books of poetry, including: Long for This World: New and Selected Poems; The Uses of Adversity; Time's Fancy; and People and Dog in the Sun. His works of literary criticism include: God Be with the Clown: Humor in American Poetry; The Last Laugh: Form and Affirmation in the Contemporary American Comic Novel; and Henry James and the Comic Form. Wallace is Halls-Bascom Professor of English, Felix Pollak Professor of Poetry, and codirector of the creative writing program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date
1991
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0822954486
ISBN 13 
9780822954484
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
80
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