Forever Fifty And Other Negotiations

Her bestselling verse has unerringly captured our follies and our foibles over the decades. Now Judith Viorst, in a witty and beautifuUy illustrated book of poems, looks at what it's like to be (gulp) fifty.Judith Viorst's poetry collections, which includeWhen Did I Stop Being Twenty..., It's Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty...,andHow Did I Get to Be Forty...,have articulated our growing pains from single life to midlife, and have continued to delight millions of readers worldwide. Writing with the warmth and authenticity that have become her trademarks, Viorst once again demonstrates her uncanny ability to transform our daily realities into poems that make us laugh with recognition. Whether her subject is the decline of the body ("It's hard to be devil-may-care/When there are pleats in your derriere") or future aspirations ("Before I go, I'd like to have high cheekbones./I'd like to talk less like New Jersey, and more like Claire Bloom"), she always speaks directly to our condition. Her funny, compassionate poems shed a reassuring light on the fine art of aging, and will delight anyone who is now (or forever) fifty.

In addition to her poetry, Judith Viorst is the author of other books for adults, including the bestseller Necessary Losses and her comic novel, Murdering Mr. Monti, as well as fourteen children's books. She is the recipient of various awards for her poetry, journalism, and psychoanalytic writings. The mother of three sons, she lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband, political writer Milton Viorst.

Contents

FIFTY

You Say You Want to Know How Old I Am?
You Say You Want to Know How the Children Are Doing?
Wild Thing
Exercising Options
Postmortems
Confusion
To a Middle-Aged Friend Considering Adultery with a Younger Man
Happiness

STILL FIFTY

By My Age
Second Marriage
Brief Encounter at the Delicatessen
They're Back
Christmas Presents for Fifty Years and Over
And Now You Want to Know If There Is Anything Good to Say about Getting Older
Eight Basic Facts about Memory
How Can People Want to Bring Children into This Terrible World?

FOREVER FIFTY

Before I Go
You Might As Well Laugh
Some Advice from a Mother to Her Married Son
When Asked to What They Owe the Success of Their Marriage, He and She Completely Agree that Love Is Accommodation
Medical Tests
More Questions
A Sexy Old Lady
The Pleasures of an Ordinary Life

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Forever Fifty And Other Negotiations

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