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After All: Last Poems by William Matthews -- he can make everyday, ordinary language sing, make the ordinary pieces of life into mythology or fantasy. The poem 'Dire Cure' encapsulates the horrifying and exhausting experience of being thrust into the role of caregiver when a partner is suddenly diagnosed with, and treated for, cancer.
He delights in word play, especially exploring the meanings and contradictions, and evolution, of oxymorons. A quirky point of view wedded to a poet's ear for language. Mesmerizing.
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