In Plena Vita - The Full Life: The Collected Poems - Paperback

by Timothy Russell (Author), Marc Harshman (Introduction by), Jodi Russell (Supplement by)

This is a classic by one of America's finest working-class writers...The Collected Poems brings together his 50 years of writing what is real from the heart with a fine true voice. It is a needed book.

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There is discipline, spirit, no easy optimism, sensibility, heart in these poems. Gary Snyder

To read Adversaria is to be in the presence of a lively and supple and various mind, as tough as it is American. Li Young Lee

Russell, who works at Weirton Steel, knows how to pare language and image down to a crystal moment....The strength and straight-forwardness of these poems makes them some of the best statements on life not only in a steel mill but the small towns that surround it. Marianna Hofer