From the bestselling author of Forever Fifty comes a new collection of poems that tickle, console, and offer the pleasure of instant recognition -- the perfect book for any woman anywhere in the vicinity of sixty.Judith Viorst's "decade" books of verse -- including It's Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty, How Did I Get to Be Forty, and Forever Fifty -- have delighted millions of readers worldwide who relish her wit, warmth, and wisdom. Now here she is with Suddenly Sixty, a funny and touching book that speaks directly to the sixty-ish woman, inviting her to laugh about, sigh over, and come to hopeful terms with the complex issues of this decade of life.Among the poems in this charmingly illustrated collection are those exploring the joys -- and strains -- of children and grandchildren, and the intimacy of old friends who've "known each other so long/We knew each other back when we were virgins". There are poems that tip their hat to mortality, wrestle with a husband's retirement -- "He's coming with me when I shop at the supermarket/So I won't have to shop alone. I like alone". -- and acknowledge the fact that at this stage of life we'd "give up a night of wild rapture with Denzel Washington for a nice report on my next bone density test". Offering plenty of laughs, a few tears, and cover-to-cover truths, these are poems for everyone who would "rather say never say die than enough is enough". Every woman who has reached this decade will -- rueful and smiling -- find herself in the pages of this book.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents
Suddenly Sixty
It's Harder to Be Frisky Over Sixty
The Blissful Couple
The New Alphabet
Old Friends
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep
A Modest Proposal
A Whole Other Stage
A Brief History of Marriage
In the Beginning
After a While
To Be Continued
More on Marriage
So My Husband and I Decided to Take a Car Trip Through New England
A Very Very Brief History of Marriage
In Response to a Request for an Apology
Anniversary Dinner
About His Retirement
A Wedding Sonnet for the Next Generation
The Children and Grandchildren
Just a Few Words of Advice, Just a Few Helpful Hints
Did I Do Something Wrong?
Our Wonderful Annual Full-Fledged Family Vacation
When I Watch
Being a Grandparent Is the Best Revenge
The Sweetest of Nights and the Finest of Days
Other Shocks
When Asked If I Thought That I'd Finally Got It Together
Late Love
To a Husband Who, After Forty-two Years, Dumped My Wonderful Friend for a Much Younger Woman
Cemeteries and Other Plots
A Thoroughly Modern Sixty
Mortal Question
Just Lucky I Guess
If Only
