In Old Heart, Stanley Plumly confronts and celebrates mortality in all its rich variety-in the detailed natural world at hand, in the immediacy of loss, and in his own personal encounters. Archetypal, sometimes even allegorical, the material and spiritual levels in these poems speak in one voice and seek the common vision of the empathic imagination. This is Plumly's finest book of poetry-a sustained meditation on "old memory, old worry, old matter from the softest tissue deep."

About the Author
Stanley Plumly (1939-2019) authored eleven books of poetry, including the National Book Award finalist Old Heart, and four books of nonfiction. His honors include the Paterson Poetry Prize and Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism, among others. Plumly was a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland as well Maryland's poet laureate from 2009 to 2018.

Reviews
"The interplay between words and reality, mortal imagination and the lasting world, shimmers in these poems." -- Robert Pinsky - Washington Post
"[Old Heart] contains the lifeblood of song as it defends the crucial endeavor to give each (re)collected moment its living, breathing name." -- Georgia Review
"Few poets have sounded so often so comfortable at once with the recollections and strong emotions involved in autobiography, and with attention to a beautiful natural world." -- Publishers Weekly
"[Old Heart] addresses, unsentimentally, the odd curtailments of age...a plain-spoken meditation and response that blends seamlessly the physical world and felt emotion." -- Library Journal


Awards
Winner of Los Angeles Times Book Prize 2007 and Paterson Poetry Prize 2008. Short-listed for National Book Award 2007.



Book Information
ISBN 9780393333183
Author Stanley Plumly
Format Paperback
Page Count 98
Imprint WW Norton & Co
Publisher WW Norton & Co
Weight(grams) 132g
Dimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm * 10mm