Description
Book SynopsisA finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Paterson Poetry Prize.
Trade Review"The interplay between words and reality, mortal imagination and the lasting world, shimmers in these poems." -- Robert Pinsky - Washington Post
"[
Old Heart] contains the lifeblood of song as it defends the crucial endeavor to give each (re)collected moment its living, breathing name." -- Georgia Review
"Few poets have sounded so often so comfortable at once with the recollections and strong emotions involved in autobiography, and with attention to a beautiful natural world." -- Publishers Weekly
"[
Old Heart] addresses, unsentimentally, the odd curtailments of age…a plain-spoken meditation and response that blends seamlessly the physical world and felt emotion." -- Library Journal
