New Hope for the Dead: Uncollected William Matthews is the last of
poet William Matthews' posthumous collections, following Search Party:
Collected Poems (Houghton Mifflin) and The Poetry Blues: Essays &
Interviews (University of Michigan Press), all edited by son Sebastian
Matthews and close friend and fellow poet Stanley Plumly. New Hope for
the Dead features the best of Matthews' remaining uncollected work,
including over 30 poems spanning Matthews' prolific but tragically
cut-short career. But unlike the first two collections, New Hope for the
Dead features Matthews' unheralded talents as a short story writer, food
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