Old Heart

<p>In this collection Stanley Plumly confronts and celebrates mortality — in the detailed natural world in the immediacy of the loss of friends and in personal encounters. Archetypal sometimes even allegorical the poems in <em>Old Heart</em> amount to a sustained meditation. The American Academy of Arts and Letters declared of Plumly that "he has in the last thirty years quietly steadily expanded the range of lyric poetry in English...[and] reinvigorated our poetry." His ethical rigor and literary modesty combine in <em>Old Heart — </em>his finest book of poetry.</p>