| Description: | After A Career Of Some Fifty Years, John Matthias Pays Homage In This Book To A Wide Range Of Poetic Masters, Early Teachers, Friends, Places, Curiosities, Fictions, And Facts In A Hybrid Volume Including Several Styles Of Verse And Two Essays Ian Pople In Manchester Review Has Called Matthias A Kind Of Mid-Atlantic Treasure, And Guy Davenport Declared Him One Of The Best Poets In The Usa Matthias, An Editor And Teacher, As Well As A Prolific Poet, Has Written Some Forty Books Of Poetry, Translation, Scholarship, And Fiction His Most Recent Volume Is A Book-Length Version Of His Memoir, Living With A Visionary, Which Was Widely Read When It Appeared In The New Yorker That Account Of His Late Wife Diana's Struggle With Parkinson's Finds A Companion Here In Hacheston Halt, About The Poet's Early Visit To Diana's House In Suffolk |
