# The Makings of Happiness, Vol. 1

By **Ronald Wallace**

- ISBN-13: 9780822954484
- Series: [Pitt Poetry Series](https://mybookbandits.com/series/pitt-poetry-series)
- Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 80
- Published: 15 Jun 1991

## About this book

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

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