Collected Poems of Stanley Plumly

The definitive collection of one of the most celebrated poets of his generation and a master of the lyric poem in its richest, most flexible registers. Stanley Plumly is one of the most emotionally complex, sustaining, and influential American poets of the last fifty years. Born in 1939, Plumly wrote poems that explored the deep interiors of the human heart and mind against a wide backdrop of cultural and historical events. Profoundly personal yet socially astute, his work is both descriptively