As My Age Then Was, So I Understood Them: New and Selected Poems, 1981-2020 Corey Stephen
As My Age Then Was, So I Understood Them: New and Selected Poems, 1981-2020 Corey Stephen A career-spanning volume drawn from forty years of work and a selection of new poems.Stephen Corey's work is…
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As My Age Then Was, So I Understood Them: New and Selected Poems, 1981-2020 Corey Stephen
A career-spanning volume drawn from forty years of work and a selection of new poems.Stephen Corey's work is intelligent, moving and engaging. The range of style and subject matter, the depth of thought and emotion, the elegance and resonance and simplicity of language, the affectionate voice and tone--all work to make this a truly important and memorable book. Poem after poem is beautiful, effortless, and thought-provoking.
In between we encounter a world we thought we knew but "Here is a life, and a life, and / a life," Stephen Corey writes in the opening poem's instructions to on how find the faded leaf--also a metaphor for the end of life--that one must imagine still colored after he is "gone." The poem is echoed near the end of this stunningly rich and encompassing book in a poem addressed to his four daughters about what he has missed during his life.