EBOOK

West of Yesterday, East of Summer

New and Selected Poems (1973-1993)

Paul Monette
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Pages
112
Year
2014
Language
English

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A poetry collection spanning the career of award-winning writer Paul Monette. Paul Monette got his start writing poetry, and it was to this form that he returned following the death of his partner Roger Horwitz from AIDS-related complications. This stunning collection includes Monette's early work as well as the beautiful and wrenching poems borne out of this immense loss. Written with characteristic wit, these poems deftly traverse humor, rage, love, and sorrow. West of Yesterday, East of Summer captures the range of an important writer. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Paul Monette including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the Paul Monette papers of the UCLA Library Special Collections.

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"A moving summation of a poet's work. In the finest of these poems, beauty and horror are not mutually exclusive qualities; they commingle with all the depth and complexity of experience itself."
Mark Doty, Bay Windows
"Deceptively popular writing that packs a revolutionary wallop."
Chicago Tribune

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