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W. W. Norton, hardcover
Publication Date: June 22, 2021
Publisher Marketing: Praised for a voice with “the crystalline, transformative, pure pitch of a lyric poet” (Ilya Kaminsky), James Longenbach explores a life lived with the knowledge of its end in his seventh collection. Forever begins and ends with love: its discovery in the first poem, “Two People,” and its maintenance in the last, “Forever.” In between, the collection explores the precariously imminent demise of all that we love–the finite lives of other people, the mortal beauty of Venice–all thrown into urgent relief by the poet’s own cancer. The poems in Forever look back gratefully–excitedly–on a lifetime of self-making and self-shattering events.
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