After All: Last Poems

A collection from "one of the few contemporary poets who really knew how to make the vernacular sing" (Library Journal).

In this collection of poems completed shortly before his death, William Matthews seems to be looking his last on all things lovely: music, food and wine, love. In the stunning central poem, "Dire Cure," which forms a kind of spine to the book, he describes the remarkable implications of the "heroic measures" that saved the life and restored the health of his wife from "...