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- For a Limited Time Only
- Book
- 2008
- Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Series: Pitt Poetry Series
summary
For a Limited TIme Only, Ronald Wallace's eighth collection of poems, is perhaps his darkest and most meditative to date, focusing his experiences with illness, old age, and mortality; his father-in-law's death after a long bout with Alzheimer's; his step-father's death after a painful struggle with esophageal cancer, his own bout with prostate cancer. These personal experiences form the core of the first three sections of the book, but are mediated by theological and philosophical speculations that find further voice in the character of a “Mr. Grim,” whose angry, self-pitying, gruff, comic, self-depreciating, nostalgic, defeated, and hopeful riffs on the human condition provide a bridge to the affirmative, often comic, close. In the final two sections, in poems in praise of his dentist, his barber, his wife, his grandparents, the morpheme, Mr. Malaprop, Pluto, tattoos, hamburger heaven, sex talk, and poetry itself, Wallace once again proves the resilience of hope and humor in what is, for him, finally a world of wonders.
Table of Contents
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- pp. 1-21
- In Praise of My Dentist
- pp. 4-5
- In the Sweet B&B
- p. 6
- In Slow Motion
- p. 10
- Inner City
- p. 11
- Out Walking
- pp. 12-13
- As It Turns Out,
- p. 14
- Itinerant Guest
- p. 15
- Professor of Plums
- pp. 18-19
- The Hand of God
- p. 20
- Limited Time Over
- p. 21
- Now You See It
- pp. 23-37
- Off with Her Head!
- pp. 26-27
- The Planning Session
- p. 30
- Abracadabra
- pp. 31-32
- Pascal’s Wager
- p. 33
- What It’s Like
- p. 34
- On Your Own Terms
- p. 35
- Professor Penis
- p. 36
- The Autobiography of Mr. Grim
- pp. 39-50
- Mr. Grim’s Gavotte
- p. 42
- Mr. Grim and God
- p. 47
- Mr. Grim in Heaven
- p. 49
- In the Realm of Possibility
- pp. 51-71
- In the Realm of Possibility
- pp. 53-54
- Hamburger Heaven
- pp. 55-56
- Home Improvement
- p. 61
- Home Maintenance
- p. 62
- All Hands on Deck
- p. 63
- The Origin of the Ear
- pp. 64-65
- This Is Not a Step
- p. 66
- Mr. Malaprop
- p. 67
- In Praise of My Barber
- pp. 69-70
- All Manner of Wonders
- pp. 73-91
- Career Day
- p. 75
- The Workshop Poem
- p. 76
- No Pegasus
- p. 77
- The Submission
- pp. 78-79
- On Television
- p. 81
- Sustenance
- p. 83
- For Ruby, Age 2
- p. 84
- The Old Mower
- pp. 85-86
- Little Quack Cuaquito
- pp. 87-88
- All Manner of Wonders
- pp. 90-91
- Acknowledgments
- p. 93
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822990963
Related ISBN(s)
9780822959960
MARC Record
OCLC
835768750
Pages
103
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No