Partial accounts
Subtitle: new and selected poems
By: by William Meredith.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 1987
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Description: This book, which brought Mr. Meredith the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, is a rigorous accounting of a life's work.The poet develops and extends his running argument about the question of despair. This collection counters a sense of a large cultural disaster with a firm commitment to spiritual health. William Meredith's work suggests that we can recognize the hardest truths about ourselves and still live in the world.