Red Leaves of Night, The - Softcover
Possession and loss, rapture and despair: David St. John's narrator in this dazzling collection of poems remains unflinchingly aware that the trajectory between these two states is both brief and irresistible. Like modern Dante's Virgil, he guides us through a mosaic of experiences to depict the vast architecture of erotic desire and communion. The sexual bond, with its potential for the breakdown of all spiritual and physical boundaries between two formerly separate beings, becomes the site of almost unbearable psychological and erotic tension that runs throughout the collection. The Red Leaves of Nightfinds its breathtaking power in a recognition of the necessary impermanence of such communion, and gives voice to that most courageous of modern men--one who grasps the dangers of ecstasy yet cannot turn away.
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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.
The Figure You
Remains the speculative whip of my aesthetic
As in the latest chapter I've been writing
Called "The Erotics of the Disembodied Self
Although I suppose the figure
You still suppose yourself to be is nevertheless
& upon reflection nothing more than the presence
Of someone else's moon-stunned body
Held quietly against your own just like the air
Or any other absence by which we learn to mark
The passing of yet another impossibly forgiven
& long-punishable night
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- PublisherHarpPeren
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0060930160
- ISBN 13 9780060930165
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages96
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