Late Father and Other Poems

by Taylor Mali

Parenthood and partnership dwell in Taylor Mali's poems in addition to a "tender gloom" that comes from having lost a father years before finally becoming one, a late father. Mali's signature playful eloquence and poignant observations are still at work here, but in these poems, Mali tells us, "all the smallest parts of me . . . can let down their tiny burdens all at once" ("My Sister Asks if She Can See More Grey"), and a wiser, more magnanimous...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692163298
• ISBN13: 9780692163290
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Quercus Review Press
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"