Summer Celestial (American Poetry Series)

By Stanley Plumly

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0880010290
• ISBN13: 9780880010290
• Release Date: September 1983
• Publisher: Ecco Pr
• Length: 52 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

One of the Poetry Collections I Turn to Again and Again

Stanley Plumly is one of my very favorite poets, and one of my greatest influences. Three of the poems from this collection stand out in particular: "After Whistler"; "Promising The Air"; and "Maples". "After Whistler" includes such turns of phrase as "There in the calendar dark" which are words you feel physically and understand emotionally.In "Promising The Air", Plumly describes a woman who dreams of a small boy and cries for him in her sleep, and he finishes the poem by dedicating it to her and "for the boy"-- which is a Stevens-like abstraction of acknowledging the real force and presence of the dream boy.In "Maples", Plumly describes a vacation with his parents, the "honey moon" in the trees, and driving along the road in the dark.I am describing all of these poems from memory because I know them so well; Plumly is one of the most important contemporary poets we have and deserves far more attention.