William Matthews

Jean Follain

Mary Feeney

Prose Poems

A World Rich in Anniversaries

Stanley Plumly

Sebastian Matthews

A definitive treasury of poetry by the award-winning late poet includes works from his eleven previous collections, as well as never-before-published poems, that explore the great pleasures--love, music, wine, and language--that serve as consolation for life's sufferings. Reprint.

Collected Poems of William Matthews

Search Party

Samuel Pepys

Robert Latham

The entire diary is presented with historical and literary interpretation

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The Diary of Samuel Pepys

An Historical Sketch of the Origin and Progress of Gas-lighting

When William Matthews died of a heart attack in 1997, the day after his fifty-fifth birthday, America lost one of its most important poets, one whose humor and wit were balanced by deep emotion, whose off-the-cuff inventiveness belied the acuity of his verse. With Search Party, his son Sebastian and his friend and fellow poet Stanley Plumly have brought together a collection drawing from all of Matthews's previously published work as well as twenty-three never-before-published poems. Here are meditations on relationships, work, family life, and, of course, jazz: "I love the smoky libidinal murmur / of a jazz crowd . . . / I like to slouch back / with that I'll-be-here-awhile tilt." Pleasure is abundant in these poems: music, wine, love, and language are, for Matthews, the necessary consolations for life's suffering. Full of as much wisdom and song as heartbreak and loss, Search Party will bring a wider reading audience to this "poet of experience" and his benedictions of everyday life.

Offers the poet's observations on topics including time, music, loss, sports, and women

Time and Money

Tom Stoppard

Arion Press

Diana Ketcham

A Play by Tom Stoppard ; with a Foreword by the Playwright, an Introduction by Diana Ketcham and Four Views of Sidley Park by William Matthews

Arcadia

Annotated entries of diaries available in American or British libraries as well as manuscripts that have been published.

An Annotated Bibliography of British Diaries Written Between 1442 and 1942

British Diaries

Cooper Dillon Books

The debut collection by the legendary William Matthews, in its entirety for the first time since 1970. Careening between the bleak and utterly buoyant, the poems in Ruining the New Road offer a startling open-mouthed, and openhearted honesty that is rare and exhilarating. Fierce in its recognition of both beauty and the painful, yet tender truths of the universe, these poems remind us that Matthews is a genuine master at laying bare the complicated spectrum of the human condition. Here is a book where, as Matthews says, "Everywhere life is ludicrous/ but absolutely crucial." - Ada Limon

Ruining the New Road

Which Took Place in the City of Washington, D.C. on the Tenth of March, 1824

A Collection of Affidavits and Certificates, Relative to the Wonderful Cure of Mrs. Ann Mattingly

From the prize-winning poet: “A stunning volume . . . A master of the understatement, Matthews is wryly philosophical and self-deprecating.” —Booklist When William Matthews died, the day after his fifty-fifth birthday, America lost one of its most important poets, one whose humor and wit were balanced by deep emotion, whose off-the-cuff inventiveness belied the acuity of his verse. Drawing from his eleven collections and including twenty-three previously unpublished poems, Search Party is the essential compilation of this beloved poet's work. Edited by his son, Sebastian Matthews, and William Matthews's friend and fellow poet Stanley Plumly (who also introduces the book), Search Party is an excellent introduction to the poet and his glistening riffs on twentieth-century topics from basketball to food to jazz.

Collected Poems

Although Cockney can be considered to be one of the most important non-standard forms of English, there had been little to no scholarly attention on the dialect prior to William Matthews’s 1938 volume Cockney Past and Present. Matthews traced the course of the speech of London from the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century by gathering information from many sources including plays, novels, music-hall songs, the comments of critics and the speech and recollections of living Cockneys. This book will be of interest to students of language and linguistics.

A Short History of the Dialect of London

Cockney Past and Present

Roy Harvey Pearce

American Diaries

Humans are unique in their ability to create systematic accounts of the world – theories based on guiding cosmological principles. This book is about the role of cognition in creating cosmologies, and explores this through the ethnography and history of Yijing divination in China. Diviners explain the cosmos in terms of a single substance, qi, unfolding across scales of increasing complexity to create natural phenomena and human experience. Combined with an understanding of human cognition, it shows how this conception of scale offers a new way for anthropologists and other social scientists to think about cosmology, comparison, and cultural difference.

A Cognitive Anthropology Through Chinese Divination

Cosmic Coherence

Modern Bookbinding Practically Considered

Annie Proulx

An essay by the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author highlights a magnificent retrospective of the paintings of the renowned watercolorist, who captures the vast range of Western experience, from the endless skies, living desert, and high plains to the last working cowboys and the Navajo. 15,000 first printing.

William Matthews

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