These poems are filled with the accumulated treasure of a lifetime, yet at their heart is the loss that fuels this dream of abundance: the friend to be mourned, the child to be loved, the poem to be written. Again and again, The Iron Key brings us to the door that opens onto the future. from "April 2003" I felt like a boy again, my navel flat as a dime- The glamour of protest, however compromised, Our certainty old people were wrong. Poetry is against war or else it isn't poetry Said my friend the poet, as if by breathing We were glamorous.
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About the Author:
James Longenbach is the author of four previous volumes of poetry and six volumes of literary criticism, and his work is often featured in The New Yorker and the Paris Review. He teaches at the University of Rochester and lives in New York.
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- PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0393078957
- ISBN 13 9780393078954
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages96
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