Soon Done with the Crosses: Poems (Poiema Poetry Series) - Softcover

Wilkinson, Claude

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1666765570 ISBN 13: 9781666765571

Publisher: Cascade Books, 2023

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Claude Wilkinson is a critic, essayist, painter, and poet. His criticism has explored such diverse artists and authors as photographers Maude Schuyler Clay and James Van Der Zee, fiction writers Chinua Achebe, John Cheever, and Flannery O'Connor, playwright Charles Fuller, and poet Etheridge Knight, among others. His poetry collections include Reading the Earth, winner of the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award, Joy in the Morning, Marvelous Light, World without End, which was nominated for the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award, and Soon Done with the Crosses. Wilkinson's poems have five times been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. 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. His paintings have been exhibited in numerous invitational, juried, and solo shows across the United States. He has won the W. M. Whittington, Jr. Purchase Award, as well as other prizes for painting.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1666765570
• ISBN 13: 9781666765571
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100