Endpoint and Other Poems

John Updike was always as much a poet as a storyteller and the poems in this, his final collection, celebrate the everyday, even as they address his own imminent mortality. It is in the connected series of poems, <i>Endpoint</i>, written on his last few birthdays and culminating with the illness that killed him, that Updike's work is at its most touching and poignant. John Updike was always as much a poet as a storyteller and the poems in this, his final collection, celebrate the everyday, even as they address his own imminent mortality. It is in the connected series of poems, <i>Endpoint</i>, written on his last few birthdays and culminating with the illness that killed him, that Updike's work is at its most touching and poignant.