
Reveille
Poems
George David Clark(Author)
University of Arkansas Press
Will be published approx. on 3. March 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
80 pages
978-1-55728-674-1 (ISBN)
Description
In Reveille a man suffers fits of supernatural coughing, flytraps attack a child, a moray haunts a waterbed, and the prodigal son stalks his local brothel in a pair of lionhide pyjamas. These poems survey their host of holy objects and exotic creatures the way one might the emblems in a dream: curious of their meanings but reluctant to interpret them and simplify their mystery.
Theologically playful, rhetorically sophisticated, and formally ambitious, Reveille is rooted in awe and driven by the impulse to praise. At heart, these are love poems, though their loves are varied and complicated by terrible threats: that we will cry out and not be answered, fall asleep and never wake. Against such jeopardy Reveille fixes our attention on a lightening horizon.
Theologically playful, rhetorically sophisticated, and formally ambitious, Reveille is rooted in awe and driven by the impulse to praise. At heart, these are love poems, though their loves are varied and complicated by terrible threats: that we will cry out and not be answered, fall asleep and never wake. Against such jeopardy Reveille fixes our attention on a lightening horizon.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Fayetteville
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 212 mm
Width: 177 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
Weight
104 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55728-674-1 (9781557286741)
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E-Book
05/2015
1st Edition
University of Arkansas Press
€24.49
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George David Clark teaches poetry at Valparaiso University, USA. His work has earned the Olive B. O'Connor Fellowship in Poetry and a Lily Postdoctoral Fellowship among other honours. He lives in Indiana, USA and edits the journal 32 Poems.