The Last Thing: New Selected Poems [Hardcover]

For nearly two decades, Patrick Rosal has been one of the most beloved and admired poets in the United States, bringing together the most dynamic aspects of literary and performance poetry. The son of Filipino immigrants (his father was a lapsed Catholic priest), he has made a life of bridging worldsliterary, ethnic, national, spiritualthrough his poetry, and has been recognized with some of the highest honors and countless devoted readers.A momentous collection from the author of PatrickRosals poems careen & hum & beg to be read aloud. His linesare a mixture of inheritance and innovation, seeds sown in the marginsof a system we were never meant to survive. He writes, the sounds Ihave made change the space that encloses me.? I read these poems aloudto change the air in my room, to alter my mood.? What a gift to bereminded of the capacity for song in every breath.