Can I read For a Limited Time Only (Pitt Poetry Series) on EtoBox?

For a Limited Time Only (Pitt Poetry Series) by Ronald Wallace is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is For a Limited Time Only (Pitt Poetry Series) about?

For a Limited TIme Only, Ronald Wallace's eighth collection of poems, is perhaps his darkest and most meditative to date, focusing his experiences with illness, old age, and mortality; his father-in-law's death after a long bout with Alzheimer's; his step-father's death after a painful struggle with esophageal cancer, his own bout with prostate cancer. These personal experiences form the core of the first three sections of the book, but are mediated by theological and philosophical speculations that find further voice in the character of a "Mr. Grim," whose angry, self-pitying, gruff, comic, self-depreciating, nostalgic, defeated, and hopeful riffs on the human condition provide a bridge to the affirmative, often comic, close. In the final two sections, in poems in praise of his dentist, his barber, his wife, his grandparents, the morpheme, Mr. Malaprop, Pluto, tattoos, hamburger heaven, sex talk, and poetry itself, Wallace once again proves the resilience of hope and humor in what is, for him, finally a world of wonders.

Who reads For a Limited Time Only (Pitt Poetry Series)?

Author

Ronald Wallace

Publisher

University of Pittsburgh Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822990963

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Poetry, Literary Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.4 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14