Selected Poems, 1968-98 - Hardcover

John Wood

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ISBN 10: 1557285594 ISBN 13: 9781557285591

Publisher: The University of Arkansas Press, 1999

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Selected Poems, 1968-1998, represents thirty years of John Wood's work, offering his readers a most comprehensive view of an unusual mind and spirit that is at once eloquent and humorous. In poems that range from narratives, lyrics, and elegies, to odes, satires, and even a mini-epic, his work whips language into intense emotion.
The prospering genius of these poems is that they seek not so much to redeem or reclaim what is lost, but to redirect perspectives with a generous sweep of possibilities.

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"Here are the best works--so far--of a gifted, mature poet who, by geography, subject matter, tone, vision, and themes comes out of the South's great literary tradition. Like Ransom, Warren, O'Connor, and Faulkner, Wood insists that the human condition is ironic, that we are fated to live stretched between the bow-ends of the real and the ideal, the earthly and the heavenly, the temporal and the eternal. This is a powerful, richly-textured book." --William Trowbridge "The most lucid and engaging of the postmodern southern poets is John Wood. . . . [He] begins in a uniquely American charnel house and ends in Tuscany with the angels of Filippo Lippi and Fra Angelico." --The Southern Review "John Wood's imagination, with one foot on the ground and one dipped in the River Jordan, brings unforgettably to life the homely and visionary mind that has yearned for spiritual utopia in the New World. . . . Wood's rhapsodic free verse rises in lyrical, prophetic periods where the visionary harmonizes with the homely and the erotic." --The Hudson Review

"Here are the best worksso farof a gifted, mature poet who, by geography, subject matter, tone, vision, and themes comes out of the South's great literary tradition. Like Ransom, Warren, O'Connor, and Faulkner, Wood insists that the human condition is ironic, that we are fated to live stretched between the bow-ends of the real and the ideal, the earthly and the heavenly, the temporal and the eternal. This is a powerful, richly-textured book." William Trowbridge "The most lucid and engaging of the postmodern southern poets is John Wood. . . . [He] begins in a uniquely American charnel house and ends in Tuscany with the angels of Filippo Lippi and Fra Angelico." The Southern Review "John Wood's imagination, with one foot on the ground and one dipped in the River Jordan, brings unforgettably to life the homely and visionary mind that has yearned for spiritual utopia in the New World. . . . Wood's rhapsodic free verse rises in lyrical, prophetic periods where the visionary harmonizes with the homely and the erotic." The Hudson Review"

About the Author:

John Wood holds professorships in both photographic history and English literature at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana, where he is also director of the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing.

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