{"product_id":"9781556593819","title":"Last Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003ePraise for Hayden Carruth:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Something Hayden Carruth does as well as any writer is to treat the reader as a friend, and to provide, through his poetry, hours of good company.\"— \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"One of the lasting literary signatures of our time.\"— \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e , starred review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Carruth, like Whitman, like Chaucer, is large—he contains multitudes. Dip into his work anywhere, and there is life—and death—as stirringly felt and cogitated as in some vast, Tolstoyan novel.\"— \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e , starred review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHayden Carruth's \u003ci\u003eLast Poems\u003c\/i\u003e is a triumph—a morally engaged, tender, and fearless volume that combines the last poems of his life with the concluding poems from each of his previous volumes. Introduced by Stephen Dobyns, \u003ci\u003eLast Poems\u003c\/i\u003e is a moving tribute to a towering and beloved figure in American poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrom \"Father's Day\":\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eI don't know what fathers are\u003cbr\u003eSupposed to do, although the calendar says\u003cbr\u003eThis is \"Father's Day.\" But the day is gloomy\u003cbr\u003eAnd not at all conducive to visiting or\u003cbr\u003eCelebrating. I know the best thing fathers in\u003cbr\u003eTheir prime can do is to make daughters and\u003cbr\u003eMore daughters; we can never have enough.\u003cbr\u003eDaughters are our best protection against\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLoneliness and the absurd atrocities of\u003cbr\u003eForeign policy . . .  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eHayden Carruth\u003c\/b\u003e (1921–2008) lived for many years in northern Vermont, then moved to upstate New York, where he taught at Syracuse University. He won the National Book Award for \u003ci\u003eScrambled Eggs \u0026amp; Whiskey\u003c\/i\u003e , and his \u003ci\u003eCollected Shorter Poems\u003c\/i\u003e received the National Book Critics Circle Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47057163485424,"sku":"9781556593819","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781556593819_p0.jpg?v=1763755947","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781556593819","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}