Forever

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Praised for a voice with "the crystalline, transformative, pure pitch of a lyric poet" (Ilya Kaminsky), James Longenbach explores a life lived with the knowledge of its end in his seventh collection. Forever begins and ends with love: its discovery in the first poem, "Two People, " and its maintenance in the last, "Forever." In between, the collection explores the precariously imminent demise of all that we love-the finite lives of other people, the mortal beauty of Venice-all thrown into urgent relief by the poet's own cancer. The poems in Forever look back gratefully-excitedly-on a lifetime of self-making and self-shattering events.