Cruising at Sixty to Seventy
Poems and Essay
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Release Date: 29/05/2014
Poems and Essay
New Hope for the Dead: Uncollected Matthews is the last of poet William Matthews' posthumous collections, following Search Party: Collected Poems (Houghton Mifflin) and The Poetry Blues: Essays & Interviews (University of Michigan Press), all edited by son Sebastian Matthews and close friend and fellow poet Stanley Plumly. New Hope for the Dead features the best of Matthews' remaining uncollected work, including over 30 poems spanning Matthews' prolific but tragically cut-short career. But unlike the first two collections, New Hope for the Dead features Matthews' unheralded talents as a short story writer, food writ