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Ronald Wallace is the author of numerous books of poetry, including, most recently, For a Limited Time Only. He is codirector of the creative writing program, Halls-Bascom Professor of English, and Felix Pollak Professor of Poetry at the University of Wis<p>Long one of our liveliest, most readable poets, Ron Wallace, in <i>For a Limited Time Only,</i> enters the dark woods of Mr. Grim, where three bad wolves-Age, Loss, and Illness-wait to swallow him. Never fear. Keeping his formidable wit about him, Wallace writes his way out of all three bellies, and-sadder, a little grayer, but still unbowed-springs back 'into the dust and sun-struck air' of the world that he helps us to love.</p>
Charles Harper Webb
<p>Ron Wallace's <i>For a Limited Time Only</i> is a verbally mischievous, frankly droll look at illness and aging. These munificent poems embrace the private world-its horrors and pleasures-as well as the cultural world of revisionist fairy tales, children's books, and television. Barbed and poignant, inventive and philosophical, Wallace's poems are continually surprising and formally nimble. <i>For a Limited Time Only</i> shimmers with complication, wit, and wisdom. While our bodies may betray us, Wallace's poems do not.</p>
Denise Duhamel
<p><i>Praise for Ron Wallace's previous work:</i>"Ron Wallace has an inventive and witty imagination which takes him into all sorts of surprising directions. His work is not only sure in its craftsmanship, but humanly important in its subject matter and treatment. Best of all, it is exuberantly alive."</p>
Lisel Mueller on <i>Tunes for Bears to Dance to</i>
<p><i>Praise for Ron Wallace's previous work:</i>"Wallace writes poetry in forms with remarkable ease and eloquence: sonnets, ballades, even a pantoum. But he is equally adept in free-verse narratives. And his Midwest roots in no way diminish his cosmopolitan outlook or his universal vision. Wallace's poems are by turns fresh, compassionate, whimsical."</p>
<i>St. Louis Dispatch</i> on <i>Long for this World</i>
<p>This is a death-inflected collection, filled with meditations upon illness that refuse to buckle in the face of the unspeakable. His wrenching elegies and playful celebrations of the self are always buoyed by his understanding of the richness of experience. Ronald Wallace's touch is remarkably light even when his heart is heavy.</p>
<i>Ploughshares</i>
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.