Study for the world's body : new and selected poems / David St. John.
Study for the world's body : new and selected poems / David St. John.
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Publisher
New York : HarperPerennial, c1994.
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N811.54/S143.4/1
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English
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Physical content
ix, 142 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Slow Dance -- Iris -- Six/Nine/Forty-Four -- Wedding Preparations in the Country -- Dolls -- Gin -- Hush -- The Shore -- Blue Waves -- The Avenues -- Guitar -- Elegy -- The Boathouse -- Hotel Sierra -- Song Without Forgiveness -- Until the Sea Is Dead -- Winter Fires -- The Day of the Sentry -- A Ha...
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Publisher
New York : HarperPerennial, c1994.
Edition
1st ed.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c1994.
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Summary
Study for the World's Body showcases the work of one of America's most celebrated and groundbreaking poets. In this remarkable and powerful new collection, he has selected the most evocative and well-loved poems from his earlier books and combined them with dazzling new ones.
In his latest poems, St. John has turned his attention more acutely to the moral dimension of desire, writing about the spiritual hardships of the mature soul - sin and alienation, and our true and sometimes thwarted hunger for genuine spiritual communion. These newer poems possess a dark, exciting quality that reflects St. John's aesthetic maturat...
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Study for the world's body : new and selected poems / David St. John.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 141).
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N811.54/S143.4/1
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0060950161 (pbk.) :
9780060553494 (cloth) :
0060553499 (cloth) :
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811.54
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991022377469702626
