Study for the World's Body: New and Selected Poems - Hardcover

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Study for the World's Body showcases the work of one of America's most celebrated and groundbreaking poets. In this remarkable and powerful new collection, he has selected the most evocative and well-loved poems from his earlier books and combined them with dazzling new ones.
In 1976, St. John made his poetic debut with the publication of Hush, a book that immediately established him as a writer of astonishing power and vision, and revealed the theme that has proven central to his writing throughout his career: desire. In Hush and the three collections that follow it, desire plays out its drama on the body. St. John explores both its physical, erotic manifestations and its spiritual ones with intellectual rigor and an emotional engagement that vibrates with intensity.
In his latest poems, St. John has turned his attention more acutely to the moral dimension of desire, writing about the spiritual hardships of the mature soul - sin and alienation, and our true and sometimes thwarted hunger for genuine spiritual communion. These newer poems possess a dark, exciting quality that reflects St. John's aesthetic maturation and assuredness.
In his tour de force title poem, with which he concludes the collection, St. John returns to the body once again, and, with the penetrating insight forged by experience and maturity, reexamines with astounding and visionary grace the devastating consequences of our deepest and most overwhelming desires.

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Prizewinning poet 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 at the University of Southern California and lives in Venice Beach.

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The Avenues
Black Poppy (at The Temple)
Blue Waves
The Boathouse
Chapter Forever
The Day Of The Sentry
Desire
Dolls
The Doors
Elegy
An Essay On Liberation
A Fan Sketched With Silver Egrets
Francesco And Clare
Gin
Guitar
A Hard & Noble Patience
Hotel Sierra
Hush
I Know
Interlude: Hephaestion's Prayer
Iris; Vivian St. John (1891-1974)
Last Night With Rafaella
Leap Of Faith
The Lemons
Los Angeles, 1954
Lucifer In Starlight
The Man In The Yellow Gloves
Meditation
Mercenary Muse
Meridian
Merlin; Italo Calvino (1923-1985)
My Friend
My Tea With Madame Descartes
No Heaven
The Reef
Shadow
The Shore
Six/nine/forty-four
Slow Dance
Song Without Forgiveness
Study For The World's Body: The Body Of Desire
The Swan At Sheffield Park
Terraces Of Rain
To Pasolini: 1. At Italo's
To Pasolini: 2. Ostia
To Pasolini: 3. 1984
To Pasolini: 4. Una Vita Violenta (1955)
To Pasolini: 5. The Art Of Argument, The Argument Of Art
To Pasolini: 6. Winter Sun
To Pasolini: 7. Hotel Of Ash
To Pasolini: 8. Love For The Dragon
Until The Sea Is Dead
Wavelength
Wedding Preparations In The Country
Who Is She, Coming Along The Street, Turning The Heads
Winter Fires
Woman And Leopard
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  • PublisherPerennial
  • Publication date1994
  • ISBN 10 0060553499
  • ISBN 13 9780060553494
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