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After All: Last Poems

William Matthews had completed AFTER ALL shortly before his death, just after his fifty-fifth birthday, in November 1997. In many poems in this collection, Matthews seems to be looking his last on all things appealing: music, food and wine, and love among them. He also evokes the death of his favorite jazz musician, Charles Mingus, speaks of cats, dogs, history — and especially, with his characteristic relaxed wit, of language and its quiddities.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 64
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780618056859
  • Genres
  • poetry
  • Release date
  • 2000