Communion
poems, 1976-1998
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Author
Publication
1999 - Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, Wash, Washington (State)
Language
English
Word Count
58,250 words, Guess
Page Count
233 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL530117M
- ISBN-10155659125X
- OCLC Control Number40881337
- OCLC Control Numbercommunionpoems190000stjo
- Library of Congress Control Number99006200
and 2 more
- LibraryThing1076657
- Goodreads792614
Classifications
- DDC811/.54
- LCCPS3569.A454 C66 1999
Description
Communion combines new poems with three out-of-print books that display St. John's mastery of both the brief lyric and longer narrative, such as his acclaimed epic poem "Dreamer." In this highly inventive poetic exploration of slavery - revised and republished here - his subject is John Newton, the sea captain and slave trader who wrote the hymn "Amazing Grace." As St. John has noted elsewhere, "I am interested in how people survive the physical and ideological violence intended to subdue and destroy them. In my work I try to be as comfortable with anger as I am with tenderness."
Subjects
Topics
Genres
- Poetry.
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