New Hope for the Dead: Uncollected William Matthews

New Hope for the Uncollected William Matthews is the last of poet William Matthews' posthumous collections, following Search Collected Poems (Houghton Mifflin) and The Poetry 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 writ