MacArthur Fellowshipwinning poet Brad Leithauser returns with his first new collection in more than a decade, a collection that recalls the delicacy and intimacy of his early, awardwinning volumes, and embraces the wisdom of age.As snappy as a dinner jackets red silk lining, as appealing as a piano interlude in jazz, Brad Leithausers robust felicity is a balm in grim times. Its also the perfect vehicle for nostalgia, regret, and surprise, forces that animate his first collection in more than a decade. By turns laughoutloud funny and deeply thoughtful, this collection balances wisdom and practicality, as with deft care Leithauser easily, often unexpectedly, juggles offrhymes and old forms and new.The book unfolds like a fiveact play, moving from chattier poems to dramatic denouements. In the collections two Darker sections, we meet folks learning to say goodbye, from a threeyearolds cry I love you so loud (A Young Farewell) to a reckoning with words formed FortyFive Years On. Time presses in continually. In Abroad and At Home, the author shows us himself, in younger form sixtysix, then twentyseven, catapulted back in memory to Tokyo by a single bite of food (The Old Current). Then, eight, and awed to remember the beauty of a lone jet overhead. With Updikean wordplay he recalls Porch steps, sunset a warm, gathering gloom. / Behind me, five lives two parents plus the three / Brothers with whom I share my room (A Single Flight). As Leithauser takes the measure of a world...

Binding: Hardback;80 pages; Publisher: Random House USA Inc; Classification: DS; Weight: 396 g; Dimensions: 235 x 161 x 14

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