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Endpoint and Other Poems
Endpoint and Other Poems | John Updike
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Collects poems written during the author's last years of his life, describing his longing for the past, the trials of old age, and his impressions of other countries, death, family, and writing.
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This posthumous 2009 collection of Updike‘s verse has nothing to prove beyond the joy of words and the wit of a great observer in his last years. He wrote to the very end of his life, and I dreaded the final pages. Sly, cheeky, and wistful, he eased me through. One of the greats, of mind and soul.