The Last Thing: New & Selected Poems

Hardcover available now. Paperback available January 2023

“To read these poems one after another is to experience a kind of double or triple vision: an American bedroom, an Ilocan [sic] coastal village, a Metuchen street. That vision leads, in turn, to felt connections, to loyalty as solid as Rosal’s firmest, longest lines.” —Stephanie Burt, New York Times

“Rosal’s poems are rich with the produce of hard toil and care for the land and its people. “—Camille Dungy, Orion Magazine

“It's breathtaking to track the evolution of Rosal's work through time...”—Booklist (starred review)

“...this powerful collection sings..."—People Magazine

“...while each poem in here is its own self-contained world, having them proximate between these covers allows the breadth of emotion, language, music, and range of Rosal’s forms to shine—the elegies and love poems, odes and narratives, laments and hymns, aubades and kundimans, prayers and letters and incantations, call-and-response, parables, and lists.” —Erika Meitner, judge's citation for William Carlos William Prize, Poetry Society of America

For nearly two decades, Patrick Rosal has been one of the most beloved and admired poets in the United States, bringing together the most dynamic aspects of literary and performance poetry. The son of Filipino immigrants, he has made a life of bridging worlds—literary, ethnic, national, spiritual—through his poetry, and has been recognized with some of poetry’s highest honors and by countless devoted readers. The Last Thing: New & Selected Poems gives us a substantial playlist of new work—hard-hitting and big-hearted—along with ample selections from his first four books. Bursting with music, infused with love and awe, this is essential reading from a poet of vigor and conscience.

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