Title: Partial accounts
First published: 1987
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.
Subjects: American poetry
LC classification: PS3525.E588 P37 1987