To the Green Man: Poems - Hardcover

Jarman, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1932511024 ISBN 13: 9781932511024

Publisher: Sarabande Books, 2004

Synopsis

This collection leaps into the dangerous currents where poetry and reli-gion meet, and enlivens the lexicon of traditional American Christian belief by testing its doctrines and language against contemporary experience. Beyond the wonderful music of his lines . . ., what makes To the Green Man such an important and memor-able book is its enactment of a spiritual struggle to be at once at home in the world and astonished by it.-Alan Shapiro Mark Jarman is a professor of English at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. His book The Black Riviera won the Poets' Prize, and Questions for Ecclesiastes was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.

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Review

""Called or not called, God is present: these words attributed to the Delphic Oracle serve as epigraph to one of the finest poems in Mark Jarman's stunning new collection. They also point to this poet's great theme and overshadowing preoccupation: the insoluble mystery (call it God if you wish) underlying human existence and the material world. Call on God and he is silent (and do not presume to supply him with words of your own); do not call on him, and he is nonetheless present and may indeed be calling on you. This is the ultimate paradox confronted by Jarman in poem after brilliantly executed poem--and it is his courageous confrontation of the mystery in so many of its guises that gives his work a depth and richness matched by very few poets of our time. "To the Green Man is not only Mark Jarman's best book to date (there is not a weak poem in it), it is essential reading for all who wish to experience contemporary poetry at its most humane, meaningful and profound."--Frederick Morgan

About the Author

Mark Jarman is a professor at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. He is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently To the Green Man, published by Sarabande. His book The Black Riviera won the 1991 Poets' Prize. Questions for Ecclesiastes was a finalist for the 1997 National Book Critics Circle Award and won the 1998 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sarabande Books
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1932511024
• ISBN 13: 9781932511024
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 77