'Nearing 90,' Judith Viorst Says She's Never Been Happier
Judith Viorst's new collection of poetry is called Nearing 90, though she's quick to note she's only "a girl of 88." She's still writing, looking forward to grandchildren graduation, and feeling good.
Judith Viorst — the author of the iconic Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day — has shelves full of children's books to her name, but she's also a prolific poet, and she has a new book of poetry out now, called Nearing 90. Even though, as she jokes, "I'm only a girl of 88."
Viorst says she reveres W.H. Auden, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins. T.S. Eliot, and W.B. Yeats, "but I decided somebody has to, , , , , — and now, .
