num_pages: 336
description: When William Matthews died, the day after his fifty-fifth birthday, America lost one of its most important poets, one whose humor and wit were balanced by deep emotion, whose off-the-cuff inventiveness belied the acuity of his verse. Drawing from his eleven collections and including twenty-three previously unpublished poems, Search Party is the essential compilation of this beloved poet's work. Edited by his son, Sebastian Matthews, and William Matthews's friend and fellow poet Stanley Plumly (who also introduces the book), Search Party is an excellent introduction to the poet and his glistening riffs on twentieth-century topics from basketball to food to jazz.
language: English
title: Search Party: Collected Poems
titlecomplete: Search Party: Collected Poems
genres: Fiction, Poetry
ratings_count: 130
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Poetry
publisher: Ecco