Late Life Author|Jasminne Mendez Much like the Des Moines

Much like the Des Moines River just outside Cottage Park time leads to the site of the 1974 Iowa high school baseball tournament

Shannon's accounts of the trials are extremely well researched and told with excellent attention to historical detail

Aronson's poems have appeared in Tin House the Georgia Review Cream City Review Mas Tequila Review the Paris-American and Quarterly West among other places

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Late Life Author|Jasminne Mendez Much like the Des Moines"Late Life is Stephen Ackerman's breathtaking debut poetry collection. Ackerman is the rare poet who can write the 21st century love poem for grown ups love is present, exacting, unguaranteed, funky, numinous. Throughout this collection, the touch is so light, so sure, so kinetic, you can miss how visceral the stakes are. These tense lines know exactly how numbered every breath we take is, yet they can still 'plant the mint and watch it thrive.'