This book, which brought Mr. Meredith the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, is a rigorous accounting of a life's work.The poet develops and extends his running argument about the question of despair. This collection counters a sense of a large cultural disaster with a firm commitment to spiritual health. William Meredith's work suggests that we can recognize the hardest truths about ourselves and still live in the world.

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