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Book SynopsisA probing and commanding final volume from a master poet facing his own mortality.
Trade Review"In these beautiful pages, his last gift to us, Stanley Plumly has gathered his beloveds in a single space: the landscapes, the poets, the light of evening, and ‘the one true angel’ of childhood. In poems so easy with cadence you might almost imagine that nature herself had invented the stately stanzas and the five-beat line. In prose so rapt with noticing you can almost believe the page remembers the tree it was. This is the poet’s final blessing: to hold the precious world in two good hands and say goodbye." -- Linda Gregerson
"When Stanley Plumly died of cancer on April 11, 2019, I reread everything I could get my hands on, from
In the Outer Dark to
Against Sunset; the beautiful prose books, too. Nothing, or everything, prepared me for his
Middle Distance. Scary, forthright, complete, by necessity in lines and in prose,
Middle Distance is the book of Stan." -- James Longenbach
