William Matthews
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William Matthews
William Matthews’s ten books have gradually earned him a place on the first roster of American poets —” as water licks its steady way through stone.” “ Very little of the poetry of the past twenty years,” Henry Taylor has written in the Washington Times, “ is more intelligent and engaging than that of William Matthews…Admiring gratitude seems perfectly appropriate.” The New Yorker has described Matthews’s work as “ poems that revel in etymology and delight in colloquialism.” And Carol Muske, in The Nation, has added: “ If asked, I couldn’t…
Search Party: Collected Poems
William Matthews, Sebastian Matthews, Stanley Plumly
When William Matthews died of a heart attack in 1997, the day after his fifty-fifth birthday, America lost one of its most important poets, one whose humor and wit were balanced by deep emotion, whose off-the-cuff inventiveness belied the acuity of his verse.
With Search Party, his son Sebastian and his friend and fellow poet Stanley Plumly have brought together a collection drawing from all of Matthews’s previously published work as well as twenty-three never-before-published poems. Here are meditations on relationships, work, family life, and, of…
