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- Book Title
- Paradise : Poems
- Publication Name
- Paradise
- Title
- Paradise
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9781557289599
- ISBN
- 9781557289599
- Publisher
- University of Arkansas Press
- Genre
- Poetry
- Release Date
- 28/02/2011
- Release Year
- 2011
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Item Height
- 0.3in
- Topic
- General, American / General
- Item Width
- 5.4in
- Item Weight
- 4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 70 Pages
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In Paradise , Stephen Gibson's fourth poetry collection, we are taken on a journey through history and myth, wars past and present, public discoveries and private loss. As the reader confronts past horrors and present truths as well as the speaker's personal ones (an abused mother, a shellshocked father), it becomes apparent that the paradise sought-not in the hereafter but in the here and now-lies just beyond reach. It all ends, suggest these verses, with the understanding that behind everything we find nothing more divine than the human.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
ISBN-10
155728959x
ISBN-13
9781557289599
eBay Product ID (ePID)
28038420825
Product Key Features
Book Title
Paradise : Poems
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, American / General
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
70 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.3in
Item Width
5.4in
Item Weight
4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3557.I225p37 2011
Reviews
"As he does in Frescoes and Masaccio's Expulson, Stephen Gibson mines the richest world we know, that of Renaissance giants who gave us so much beauty, so much pain. Like theirs, Gibson's work is both luscious and rueful, and when I read these poems, each as carefully wrought as a goldsmith's tray or bracelet, suddenly I feel deeply and happily human." -David Kirby, author of The House on Boulevard St. "Every glimpse of paradise must be paid for by a visit to hell, or that's what Stephen Gibson seems to be saying in Paradise . St. Catherine and a blonde junkie inhabit the same poem and the same world. A cafe in Venice cannot help you hide from the grim face of war, the current conflagrations and ones that have left their scars on the past. Italy is where this books starts with its images of the Virgin and the saints, but even in the glories of art there are shots of sex and murder. And this impulse finds its apotheosis in Gibson's series of ghazals that take an unwavering look at NYC crime scene photos, the paradise of ordinary life cut short by guns or gas or fists. It is this madness that is his real subject. How do we live with the monsters inside us even in this paradise of beauty that is our world?" -Barbara Hamby, author of Babel and All-Night Lingo Tango " Paradise is all that it advertises and more. Against a backdrop of urbane Italian tableaux, artistic masterpieces, and crime scene photographs, these narratives are by turns ecstatic, infernal and purgatorial, all in service of a book-length musée de beaux arts that would have dazzled Auden. A master of surprising and unforgettable juxtaposition, Gibson invokes myth, history and the crises of the moment to reveal both 'the anonymous connection to all damage' and the necessity of empathy. His combination of poise and urgency is a rare and precious achievement." -R. T. Smith, author of Outlaw Style: Poems, "As he does in Frescoes and Masaccio's Expulson, Stephen Gibson mines the richest world we know, that of Renaissance giants who gave us so much beauty, so much pain. Like theirs, Gibson's work is both luscious and rueful, and when I read these poems, each as carefully wrought as a goldsmith's tray or bracelet, suddenly I feel deeply and happily human." -David Kirby, author of The House on Boulevard St. "Every glimpse of paradise must be paid for by a visit to hell, or that's what Stephen Gibson seems to be saying in Paradise. St. Catherine and a blonde junkie inhabit the same poem and the same world. A cafe in Venice cannot help you hide from the grim face of war, the current conflagrations and ones that have left their scars on the past. Italy is where this books starts with its images of the Virgin and the saints, but even in the glories of art there are shots of sex and murder. And this impulse finds its apotheosis in Gibson's series of ghazals that take an unwavering look at NYC crime scene photos, the paradise of ordinary life cut short by guns or gas or fists. It is this madness that is his real subject. How do we live with the monsters inside us even in this paradise of beauty that is our world?" -Barbara Hamby, author of Babel and All-Night Lingo Tango "Paradise is all that it advertises and more. Against a backdrop of urbane Italian tableaux, artistic masterpieces, and crime scene photographs, these narratives are by turns ecstatic, infernal and purgatorial, all in service of a book-length mus e de beaux arts that would have dazzled Auden. A master of surprising and unforgettable juxtaposition, Gibson invokes myth, history and the crises of the moment to reveal both 'the anonymous connection to all damage' and the necessity of empathy. His combination of poise and urgency is a rare and precious achievement." -R. T. Smith, author of Outlaw Style: Poems
Copyright Date
2011
Lccn
2010-046106
Dewey Decimal
811/.54
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
22
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