After a diagnosis of cancer, acclaimed poet Stanley Plumly found himself in the Middle distance--looking back at his childhood and a rich lifetime of family and friends, while gazing into a future shaped by the press of mortality.
The result is the moving culmination of a long career, a work of fearless, transcendent Poems that face down.
In Middle Distance , his final collection, he pushes onward into new territory with extended hybrid forms and revelatory prose pieces.
After a diagnosis of cancer, acclaimed poet Stanley Plumly found himself in the Middle distance--looking back at his childhood and a rich lifetime of family and friends, while gazing into a future shaped by the press of mortality