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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Univ Pr of New England
Publication date
March 3, 2015
Pages
203
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781611687118
ISBN-10
161168711X
Dimensions
0.75 by 4.50 by 7.50 in.
Weight
0.42 lbs.
Original list price
$14.95
Other format details
university press
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Gary Soto is a poet and, in his previous writing life, author of childrenâs literature. Moreover, he is an essayist whose works, such as Living Up the Street, A Summer Life, and What Poets Are Like, were celebrated for their openness and vivid image-making. In this collection, the poet again offers prose that is robust, confessional, and peculiar in its observations. He addresses time. He considers aging. If each day of the week represented a decade, then Soto is now cruising late Saturday afternoon. As the clockâs gears relentlessly grind, heâs soon on Sundayâbut Sunday morning! He still has time to enjoy the world about him.
Soto is a master essayist. His sharply refined sentences are worth a second read, and often a pencil in hand. Sotoâs world is quirky, captured in narrative that will soften readers with laughter and empathy. Like many boomers, he laments his sense of failure. Like them, he shrugs off that failure to recast his remaining years. He befriends daffodils, praises theater and tribute bands, and snuggles up with his wife of nearly forty years. This book is short enough to read in one sitting on the couch and encourages a second reading with deeper pleasure in bed.
Soto is a master essayist. His sharply refined sentences are worth a second read, and often a pencil in hand. Sotoâs world is quirky, captured in narrative that will soften readers with laughter and empathy. Like many boomers, he laments his sense of failure. Like them, he shrugs off that failure to recast his remaining years. He befriends daffodils, praises theater and tribute bands, and snuggles up with his wife of nearly forty years. This book is short enough to read in one sitting on the couch and encourages a second reading with deeper pleasure in bed.
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Paperback
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from Univ Pr of New England (March 3, 2015)
9781611687118 | details & prices | 203 pages | 4.50 × 7.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.42 lbs | List price $14.95
About: Gary Soto is a poet and, in his previous writing life, author of childrenâs literature.
About: Gary Soto is a poet and, in his previous writing life, author of childrenâs literature.
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