The Makings of Happiness

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Wallace’s poems cover the range of human experience: music, religion, sex, art, childhood, adolescence, nuclear war, illness, and death. But it’s in his wit and good humor, against undercurrents of sorrow and grief that best characterize his poetry: part Emily Dickinson, and part Harpo Marx; part Woody Allen, and part Robert Frost.

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<b>Ronald Wallace</b> is the author of seven books of poetry, including:<i>Long for This World: New and Selected Poems; The Uses of Adversity; Time's Fancy;</i>and<i>People and Dog in the Sun.</i> His works of literary criticism include:<i>God Be with the Clown: Humor in American Poetry; The Last Laugh: Form and Affirmation in the Contemporary American Comic Novel;</i> and<i>Henry James and the Comic Form.</i> Wallace is Halls-Bascom Professor of English, Felix Pollak Professor of Poetry, and codirector of the creative writing program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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