May Darkness Restore
Published on 15. January 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
142 pages
978-1-941209-96-7 (ISBN)
Description
Cowboy poet Sean Sexton’s May Darkness Restore "is a glorious book—Sexton's generous, unerring artist's eye finds extraordinary beauty in the often difficult everyday facts in the life of a third-generation Florida cattle rancher. He glories in the magic and alchemy of language and turns words and phrases like ‘Rhizobium leguminosarum’ and ‘raggedy-assed tractor’ into pure poetry. This book celebrates the beauties of generation, death, rebirth and love, and offers us all a share of truly redemptive grace." —Sidney Wade, author of Bird Book: Poems
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
13 Illustrations; Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
217 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-941209-96-7 (9781941209967)
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Person
Sean Sexton was born and raised on his family's Treasure Hammock Ranch and divides his time between managing a 700-acre cow-calf and seed stock operation, painting, and writing. He is author of Blood Writing, Poems, Anhinga Press; May Darkness Restore, Poems, Press 53; and two chapbooks. His third full poetry collection, Portals, is due out this Fall. He has performed at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, NV, Miami Book Fair International, and the High Road Festival of Poetry and Short Fiction in Winston Salem, North Carolina. He was nominated for a 2020 and 2021 Pushcart Prize and received a Florida Individual Artist's Fellowship in 2001. Sean is a board member of the Laura Riding Jackson Foundation (Lauraridingjackson.org) and founding event chair of the Annual Poetry and Barbeque now in its eleventh year. He also co-founded and curates a Poetry and Organ Advent and Lenten Concert Series at Community Church in Vero Beach, Florida (ccovb.org) featuring nine concerts each year attracting poets from all over the United States. He became inaugural Poet Laureate of Indian River County in 2016.