After All: Last Poems

by William Matthews

Book Overview

This is the touchingly entitled collection of poems William Matthews had completed shortly before dying, just after his fifty-fifth birthday in November 1997. Is death ever entirely unexpected? Not, perhaps, by a collector of experience, a gourmet of language, who can refer to "death flickering in you like a pilot light." In AFTER ALL, Matthews seems to be looking his last on all things lovely: music, food and wine, love. In the stunning central...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0618056858
• ISBN13: 9780618056859
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.9" x 8.2"