Long For This World: New And Selected Poems

by Ronald Wallace

Long for This World features the best of Ronald Wallace's work from his previous collections of poetry-- Plums, Stones, Kisses & Hooks , Tunes for Bears to Dance To, People and Dog in the Sun, The Makings of Happiness, Time's Fancy and The Uses of Adversity --along with a generous selection of twenty-six new poems. If Wallace's recent poems sometimes seem darker and deeper, more meditative and complex, less sanguine about the tragedies of daily life, they never sacrifice the comic sense, the synthesis of technical skill and strong emotion, and the sensory immediacy that have become his hallmarks.

Genres: Poetry

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

Reviews

[Husayn · Rating 4 out of 5]

full of humor, simply and joyful poems

[Penny · Rating 4 out of 5]

The poet's poem "Blessings" is one of my favorite poems ever. There are other good poems in this book but that one is still my favorite.