num_pages: 69
description: Written in a voice that moves between elegy and prayer, The Simple Truth contains thirty-three poems whose aim is to weave a complex tapestry of myth, history (both public and private), family, memory, and invention in a search for truths so basic and universal they often escape us all.
language: English
title: The Simple Truth
titlecomplete: The Simple Truth
genres: 20th Century, American, Poetry, The United States Of America, Nonfiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 759
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Poetry, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Poetry
publisher: Knopf