Long for This World features the best of Ronald Wallace \'s work from his previous collections of poetry-- Plums, Stones, Kisses & Hooks , Tunes for Bears to Dance To, People and Dog in the Sun, The Makings of Happiness, Time\'s Fancy and The Uses of Adversity --aLong with a generous selection of twenty-six new poems.
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..
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.
About author(s): Ronald Wallace is the author of seven previous books of poetry, including: Long for This World: New and Selected Poems
The Uses of Adversity
Time\'s Fancy
People and Dog in the Sun ; and The Makings of Happiness.
If Wallace\'s recent Poems sometimes seem darker and deeper, more meditative and complex, less sanguine about the tragedies of daily life, they never sacrifice the comic sense, the synthesis of technical skill and strong emotion, and the sensory immediacy that have become his hallmarks.
Long for This World features the best of Ronald Wallace \'s work from his previous collections of poetry-- Plums, Stones, Kisses & Hooks , Tunes for Bears to Dance To, People and Dog in the Sun, The Makings of Happiness, Time\'s Fancy and The Uses of Adversity --aLong with a generous selection of twenty-six new poems
