The Auroras : New Poems Hardcover - 2012
by St. John, David
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- Title The Auroras : New Poems
- Author St. John, David
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 96
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers, New York
- Date 2012-03
- Features Dust Cover, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 10650249-6
- ISBN 9780062088482 / 0062088483
- Weight 0.62 lbs (0.28 kg)
- Dimensions 9.2 x 6.21 x 0.55 in (23.37 x 15.77 x 1.40 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
- Topical: Death/Dying
- Library of Congress subjects California, Poetry
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011021509
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
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From the rear cover
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.
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Citations
- Library Journal, 01/01/2012, Page 108
