Prism
by David St. John
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Poetry. This book of new poems by David St. John includes fourteen vibrant photographs by Lance Patigian. One of the finest poetic craftsmen of his generation, David St. John has recevied regular and lavish praise from his contemporaries. Speaking of his poetry, Robert Hass has said, "It is not just gorgeous, it is go-for-broke gorgeous. It is made out of sentences, sweeping through and across his meticulous verse stanzas, that could have been written, for their velvet and intricate suavity, show more by Henry James. But that doesn't quite describe them, since they are also full, almost past ripeness, of a floating, sometimes painful, sometimes wistful, intense, dark and silvery eroticism that feels as if it comes out of some cross between late nineteeth-century symbolist lushness--vague and specific at once--and the kind of '60s and '70s European film that talked about eroticism with a wistfulness so intense that it seemed experience and the melancholy recollection of experience were the same th show lessTags
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David St. John is the author of many collections of poetry, including The Window, The Auroras, Prism, and Study for the World's Body: New and Selected Poems, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, He is Chair of the English Department at the University of Southern California and lives in Venice Beach, California.
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- Fiction and Literature, Poetry, Tween
- DDC/MDS
- 808 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism Rhetoric and collections of literary texts from more than two literatures
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- PS3569 .A4536 .P75 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1961-
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