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Grace /

Winner of the 2005 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry. Grace is John Hodgen's third book of poetry. He is a poet of extreme contrasts, offering us the dregs of despair, yet instantly recalling hope in the beauty of nature or in a moment in time when all is right, when we realize grace. In "For th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hodgen, John (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2006]
Colección:Pitt poetry series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contents
  • I ... no spring, nor summer beauty . . .
  • Clay County
  • My Mother Swimming
  • Men Lying in Fields
  • For the Leapers
  • Today
  • Fermata: After Clearing Out My Motherâ€?s Place
  • This Moon, These Fifty Years
  • Lost Bird
  • On Finding, in a Book of Poems by Norman Dubie, a 25-Year-Old Letter from the Bookbinder to My Cousin Dead Now of AIDS
  • High Summer
  • II ... the music of her face . . .
  • Manifest Destiny
  • On a Wing
  • For the Man Who Spun Plates
  • Something to Cry About
  • Proof
  • Coast to Coast
  • In Wind
  • For Freedy, and for the Ohio Dragging Itself for Its DeadWhat Becomes a Star Each Night, and Rises
  • Eyes
  • Each Moment Is Speaking to You of the Other
  • III ... angels and ministers . . .
  • Visitation
  • Outside the Coolawhatchie Blimpie Gas â€?nâ€? Go
  • Trick
  • For the Waitresses at the Bars Outside Fenway Park
  • Upon Being Called Mature and Together, on Respectfully and Summarily Rejecting Both Descriptors, and on Suddenly Remembering the Best Night of My Life
  • In a Dream It All Has to Be True Like the Moon
  • Dose
  • Word Search
  • Prenatal
  • Upon Being Awakened at 3 a.m. by Lovers Talking, Laughing, Riding a Motorbike Beside the Arno River, Florence, November 25, 2002For the Young Man Who Would Not Let Me in to Visit Keatsâ€?s Grave with Ten Minutes Left until Closing Time at the Cimitero Accatolica, Rome, December 1, 2002
  • The Oldest Lie
  • Acknowledgments