A new collection of works from a respected poet explores the nature of language as the poems delve into the subtleties of our human relationships and observe with elegance and precision the natural world.
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Brad Leithauser was born in Detroit and graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He is the author of three previous volumes of poetry--<b>Hundreds of Fireflies</b>, <b>Cats of the Temple</b>, and <b>The Mail from Anywhere</b>--four novels, and a book of essays. He is the recipient of many awards for his writing, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Ingram Merrill grant, and a MacArthur Fellowship.<br><br>He and his wife, the poet Mary Jo Salter, are the Emily Dickinson Lecturers in the Humanities <br>at Mount Holyoke College. They live with their two daughters, Emily and Hilary, in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
d Last Thing She Did</b> is Brad Leithauser's fourth book of poems--and his first collection in eight years.<br><br>Once again his poems evince a profound love of nature and a mastery of poetic forms. But they also reflect a deepening interest in storytelling, as Leithauser, who has also published four novels, here brings the narrative drive that propels his fiction into the domain of verse.<br><br>With compassion and imagination, Leithauser enters into the mysteries of lives both real and fictional: a middle-aged businessman who marries the identical twin of his deceased wife; a beautiful young woman whose life ends on a beautiful summer day; an elderly couple conducting a confused, touching romance in a nursing home; a young World War II soldier returning, wounded, to his fiancee.<br><br>And, as always, Leithauser's poems about the natural world are both coolly precise and warmly <br>engaging. A marsh in March, the play of sunlight underneath a bridge, a long-delayed spring,
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