Against Sunset: Poems

Against Sunset: Poems

<p><strong>A powerful new volume from the National Book Award finalist that demonstrates how the lyric is essentially elegiac.</strong></p><p>Whether addressing the deaths of friends and other poets or celebrating the closing of the day and the autumn of the seasons, <em>Against Sunset</em> reveals Stanley Plumly at his most personal and intimate. As much an homage to the rich tradition of the Romantics as it is a meditation on memory itself, these poems live at the edges of disappearances.</p><p>From “Against Sunset”<br /> The horizon, halfway disappeared between above and below―<br /> night falls too or does it also rise out of the death-glitter of water?<br /> And if night is the long straight path of the full moon pouring down<br /> on the face of the deep, what makes us wish we could walk there,<br /> like a flat skipped stone?</p>