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Zusatztext "Read these poems slowly because this kind of writing does not happen overnight? THE AURORAS is luxurious whether dealing with the ordinary or the magnificent." Informationen zum Autor Prize-winning author David St. John is the author of ten collections of poetry, including Study for the World’s Body: New and Selected Poems, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, as well as Where the Angels Come Toward Us, a volume of essays, interviews, and reviews. He is the co-editor, with Cole Swenson, of American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry. He teaches literature and creative writing in the graduate program at the University of Southern California, and lives in Venice Beach. Klappentext An exciting, long-awaited collection from the National Book Award finalist, a poet of wild imagination and formidable accomplishment David St. John's new collection of poetry, The Auroras , is the most provocative, adventurous, and stylistically eclectic work of his career. Composed as a triptych of three distinct movements, it opens with a sequence of urgent, subversive, sensually charged poems, crackling with desire. In the center section, St. John returns to the California landscapes of his youth, in both the San Joaquin Valley and the Sierra Nevada Mountains. These poems are quiet and measured, yet often psychologically troubling. The final section of The Auroras is constructed as an album of philosophical and aesthetic meditations, all haunted by the force of an emerging sense of mortality. In this collection, even the most compelling emanations of light—artistic, intellectual, sexual, or spiritual—are inevitably framed by impending darkness. The beauty, music, and artistry of David St. John's poetry have been long admired; now The Auroras reveals the extent and breadth of his masterful poetic achievement. Zusammenfassung “David St. John's work has been distinguished from the start by its intimacy and subtlety! and by a disturbing force! the work of an urgent sensibility and a true ear.” —W. S. Merwin This long-awaited collection from David St. John is the most provocative! adventurous! and stylistically eclectic work of his career. The beauty! music! and artistry of David St. John’s poetry have been long admired; now The Auroras reveals the extent and breadth of this masterful poetic achievement. Readers of Larry Levis! Dana Gioia! and Phillip Levine will be captivated by this searing! surprising! and sensual collection from one of the world’s greatest poets writing at the height of his talent and insight. ...
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David St. John is the author of eleven collections of poetry (including Study for the World’s Body, nominated for the National Book Award in poetry) as well as a volume of essays, interviews, and reviews titled Where the Angels Come Toward Us. A chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, he is University Professor and chair of the English Department at the University of Southern California, and lives in Venice Beach, California.
