For a Limited Time Only

by Ronald Wallace

Book Overview

For a Limited TIme Only, Ronald Wallace's eighth collection of poems, is perhaps his darkest and most meditative to date, focusing his experiences with illness, old age, and mortality; his father-in-law's death after a long bout with Alzheimer's; his step-father's death after a painful struggle with esophageal cancer, his own bout with prostate cancer. These personal experiences form the core of the first three sections of the book, but are mediated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822959968
• ISBN13: 9780822959960
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.3" x 8.7"