In this Book
- Paradise: Poems
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: University of Arkansas Press
summary
In Paradise, Stephen Gibson's fourth poetry collection, we are taken on a journey through history and myth, wars past and present, public discoveries and private loss. As the reader confronts past horrors and present truths as well as the speaker's personal ones (an abused mother, a shellshocked father), it becomes apparent that the paradise sought-not in the hereafter but in the here and now-lies just beyond reach. It all ends, suggest these verses, with the understanding that behind everything we find nothing more divine than the human.
Table of Contents
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- Front matter
- pp. i-v
- Acknowledgments
- p. vii
- Memorial Sonnet
- p. 9
- Memento Mori
- pp. 13-15
- Sonnet for Auden
- p. 19
- Piazza Shelley
- p. 31
- Life Study
- p. 32
- Head Games
- p. 33
- Brunelleschi’s Dome
- p. 37
- Nighthawks
- p. 40
- Ghazal for Pretty Women and Venice
- pp. 52-53
- Impromptu on Titian’s Annunciation
- pp. 54-55
Additional Information
ISBN
9781610754798
Related ISBN(s)
9781557289599
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
787842705
Pages
70
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No