
Soon Done with the Crosses
Poems
Claude Wilkinson(Author)
Cascade Books (Publisher)
Published on 12. July 2023
Book
Hardback
100 pages
978-1-6667-6558-8 (ISBN)
Description
Two excerpts from spirituals, offered as epigraphs, foreshadow themes in Soon Done with the Crosses. The first song, ""One of These Days,"" suggests inevitable burdens that all of us must bear at some point, while the second song, ""Do Lord,"" supposes a glorious reward for those who faithfully endure. The poems in this book form a catalog of varied trials--both historical and contemporary--drawn from art, imaginings, the natural world, and aspects of the human condition, coupled with questions about eternity. Though while the collection begins with pleas for some bright assurance, it concludes in yet another vigil through dark, lonely hours, longing for morning's clarifying light.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
311 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-6667-6558-8 (9781666765588)
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07/2023
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Person
Claude Wilkinson is a critic, essayist, painter, and poet. His previous poetry collections include Reading the Earth, winner of the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award, Joy in the Morning, Marvelous Light, and World without End. He has been a provost scholar and also John and Renee Grisham Visiting Southern Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi. Other honors for his poetry include a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship and the Whiting Writers' Award.