Study for the World's Body - Softcover

St. John, David

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9780060950163: Study for the World's Body

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060950161 ISBN 13: 9780060950163

Publisher: HarpPeren, 1994

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A remarkable collection representing early and recent poems by David St. John, the critically acclaimed author of Hush, The Shore, and No Heaven.

GUITAR

I have always loved the word guitar.

I have no memories of my father on the patio

At dusk, strumming a Spanish tune,

Or my mother draped in that fawn wicker chair

Polishing her flute;

I have no memories of your song, distant Sister

Heart, of those steel strings sliding

All night through the speaker of the car radio

Between Tucumcari and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Though I've never believed those stories

Of gypsy cascades, stolen hoses, castanets,

And stars, of Airstream trailers and good fortune.

Though I've never met Charlie Christian, though

I've danced the floors of cold longshoremen's halls,

Though I've waited with the overcoats at the rear

Of concerts for lute, mandolin, and two guitars –

More than the music I love scaling its woven

Stairways, more than the swirling chocolate of wood

I have always loved the word guitar.

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About the Author:

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.

Review:

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
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder�

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