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English
WW Norton & Co
12 August 2025
Born in 1939, Stanley Plumly wrote poems that explored the deep interiors of the human heart and mind against a wide backdrop of cultural and historical events. Profoundly personal yet socially astute, his work is both descriptively exact and allusive, engaging nature and art as well as family and friendship.

Drawing on his existing work and including nine brilliant new poems, Collected Poems gathers the full range of Plumly's talent as it charts the development of his unique and enduring contribution to the American lyric. The volume stands as a tribute to Plumly's artistic vision and will be welcomed by his many readers now and in the generations to come.
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Imprint:   WW Norton & Co
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 236mm,  Width: 160mm,  Spine: 38mm
Weight:   761g
ISBN:   9781324105930
ISBN 10:   1324105933
Pages:   480
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Stanley Plumly (1939–2019) was the author of numerous collections of poetry including In the Outer Dark (1970), winner of the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award, and Out-of-the-Body Travel (1978), nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Other works include Giraffe (1973), Summer Celestial (1983), Boy on the Step (1989), The Marriage in the Trees (1997), and Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me: New and Selected Poems, 1970–2000 (2000), Against Sunset (2017), and the posthumous Middle Distance (2020). His collection Old Heart (2009) won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Paterson Poetry Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. He authored four works of prose: Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography (2008), which was named runner-up for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography; The Immortal Evening: A Legendary Dinner with Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb (2014), which received the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism; Elegy Landscapes: Constable and Turner and the Intimate Sublime (2018), and Argument and Song: Sources and Silences in Poetry (2003). Plumly was a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland as well as Maryland’s poet laureate from 2009 to 2018. David Baker is a poet, critic, and educator. He has received honors from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Poetry Society of America, and more. Baker lives in Granville, Ohio, where he is emeritus professor of English at Denison University. Michael Collier is a former director of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences and professor emeritus of English, University of Maryland. He lives in Maryland.

Reviews for Collected Poems of Stanley Plumly

Plumly is a mighty voice. His contributions include how lyric phrasing can form language and how the resulting surface trembles in the subtle wind of the poet's breath passing through it. . . . Fellow writers, cousins, kin of any stripe, we are made to listen to Plumly's heart. --Kevin Cantwell ""Pittsburgh Review of Books""


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