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Long For This World
Long for This World features the best of Ronald Wallace's work from his previous collections of poetry—Plums, Stones, Kisses & Hooks (1981), Tunes for Bears to Dance To (1983), People and Dog in the Sun (1987), The Makings of Happiness (1991), Time's Fancy (1994),and The Uses of Adversity (1998)—along with a generous selection of twenty-six new poems. If Wallace's recent poems sometimes seem darker and deeper, more meditative and complex, less sanguine about the tragedies of daily life, they never sacrifice the comic sense, the synthesis of technical skill and strong emotion, and the sensory immediacy that have become his hallmarks.
Time's Fancy
• Winner of the 1995 Banta Book Prize for a Wisconsin AuthorRonald Wallace is best known for his wit and good humor, his synthesis of technical skill and strong emotion, his sensory immediacy, his accessibility, and charm. Now in Time's Fancy, his fifth collection, Wallace explores the tragic aspects of life more fully, fashioning a declarative poetry that is darker and deeper, more meditative and complex.
The Makings of Happiness
The author of this book of poems has contributed to The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The Nation, Poetry and many other magazines. His previous books include Plums, Stones, Kisses & Hooks, Tunes For Bears to Dance To, and People and Dog in the Sun.
The Uses of Adversity
The Uses of Adversity - titled after the line from As You Like It, "Sweet are the uses of adversity" - is a collection of one hundred sonnets cobining the craftiness of traditional form with the effortlessness of free verse. The language is often richly textured and musical, often plain spoken and conversational, but always witty and accessible. The subject matter ranges widely from Rootie Kazootie and Froggy the Gremlin, Howdy Doody and Elvis Presley, to Christopher Columbus, Khrushchev, Kennedy, and Kevorkian; from Donald Duck, Mandrake the Magician, Li'l Abner and the Creature from the Black Lagoon, to Shakespeare, H.P. Lovecraft, Transtromer, Rilke, Wittgenstein, and Nietzsche; from the ...
For Dear Life
In For Dear Life, with accessibility, wit, and humor, Ronald Wallace evokes a wide variety of subjects that range from the traditional themes of lyric poetry--love, death, sex, the natural world, marriage, birth, childhood, music, religion, art--to the most unexpected and quirky narratives--an ode to excrement, a catalogue of comic one-liners, a celebratory testimonial to his teeth.
For a Limited Time Only
For a Limited Time Only explores issues of aging, illness, and mortality, and the philosophical and theological speculations that arise from personal tragedy, and invokes humor, hope, and consolation in the face of death and loss. Winner of the 2008 Posner Book-Length Poetry Award. Winner of the 2009 Wisconsin Library Association Outstanding Achievement in Poetry Award.
The Story of Joseph and the Family of Jacob
This engaging exploration of the Joseph story by trusted Bible scholar Ronald Wallace offers a fresh look at Genesis 37-50 and its continuing relevance to life in our modern world. Wallace traces the life of Joseph through his enslavement and subsequent rise to power in Egypt to the place where he would save the nascent tribe of Israel from sure starvation. Throughout these fourteen powerful and important chapters in Genesis, Joseph grapples with jealousy, selfishness, integrity, and other issues that remain pertinent to all believers today. Designing his work with personal or group Bible study in mind, Wallace divides the scriptural text into small, easily digestible sections and provides s...
The Place My Words Are Looking For
Thirty-nine United States poets share their poems, inspirations, thoughts, anecdotes, and memories.
A Detective's Story
Justice is a great thing when someone has been wronged or violated. We want those guilty held accountable for the crime they have committed. In this book you will read true stories of real case files of Detective Ron Wallace. The stories are real but the names of the victim's and suspect have been changed to protect their identity. The street names have also been changed. Some of the cases in this book will touch your heart and then be filled with excitement. The book has been formatted into a case file format like a real case file. I have tried to bring my experiences as a Police Detective to book form and give the reader a feel of being a Detective. I hope this book may inspire readers to make sure that if someone they know or themselves become more diligent in keeping peace.
I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You
An award-winning anthology of paired poems by men and women. In this insightful anthology, the editors grouped almost 200 poems into pairs to demonstrate the different ways in which male and female poets see the same topics. How women see men, how boys see girls, and how we all see the world—often in very different ways, but surprisingly, wonderfully, sometimes very much the same.
