The Red Leaves of Night - Hardcover

St. John, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060192836 ISBN 13: 9780060192839

Publisher: Harperflamingo, 1999

Synopsis

Presents a selection of poetry that explores the complex power of the sexual bond and its extraordinary ability to transcend all spiritual, emotional, and physical boundaries

About this title

About the Author:

David St. John has been honored, over the course of his career, with many of the most significant prizes for poets, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Prix de Rome Fellowship in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and a grant from the Ingram Merrill Foundation. His work has been published in countless literary magazines, including The New Yorker, Paris Reviews, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Antaeus, Harper's, and The New Republic, and has been widely anthologized. He has taught creative writing at Oberlin College and Johns Hopkins University and currently teaches at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

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The Figure You

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Harperflamingo
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0060192836
• ISBN 13: 9780060192839
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 85