num_pages: 140
description: There can be no doubt that Hayden Carruth is one of the preeminent American poets of the late twentieth century. In these poems written since publication of his Collected Shorter Poems, 1946-1991, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, he speaks with intimate and urgent clarity of love late in life, and in heartrending poems addresses his daughter's struggle against cancer. In others he engages the loves, friendships, and social concerns of a lifetime. With passion and pathos and great good humor, in poems that could only be written by a mature poet at the height of his powers, Carruth achieves a nobility of vision that is rare in any age.
language: English
title: Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey
titlecomplete: Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey
genres: Poetry, Nonfiction, 20th Century
ratings_count: 322
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: National Book Award
category: Poetry
publisher: Copper Canyon Press