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Praise for Hayden Carruth:'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.'The New York Times Book Review'One of the lasting literary signatures of our time.'Library Journal, starred review'Carruth, like Whitman, like Chaucer, is largehe contains multitudes. Dip into his work anywhere, and there is lifeand deathas stirringly felt and cogitated as in some vast, Tolstoyan novel.'Booklist, starred reviewHayden Carruth's Last Poems is a triumpha 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, Last Poems is a moving tribute to a towering and beloved figure in American poetry.From 'Father's Day':I don't know what fathers areSupposed to do, although the calendar saysThis is 'Father's Day.' But the day is gloomyAnd not at all conducive to visiting orCelebrating. I know the best thing fathers inTheir prime can do is to make daughters andMore daughters; we can never have enough.Daughters are our best protection againstLoneliness and the absurd atrocities ofForeign policy . . .Hayden Carruth (19212008) 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 Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey, and his Collected Shorter Poems received the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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