David St. John
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David St. John
The publication of Study for the World’s Body: New & Selected Poems, a finalist for the National Book Award in 1994, reinforced David St. John’s reputation as a poet of wild imagination and formidable accomplishment. Now, with the arrival of The Red Leaves of Night, St. John further demonstrates his extraordinary gifts as a poet of true vision and virtuosity in this seamless meditation on the ecstatic anguish of possession and loss.
Possession and loss, rapture and despair: David St. John’s narrator remains unflinchingly aware that the trajectory…
Study for the World's Body: New and Selected Poems
David St. John
Study for the World’s Body showcases the work of one of America’s most celebrated and groundbreaking poets. In this remarkable and powerful new collection, he has selected the most evocative and well-loved poems from his earlier books and combined them with dazzling new ones. In 1976, St. John made his poetic debut with the publication of Hush, a book that immediately established him as a writer of astonishing power and vision, and revealed the theme that has proven central to his writing throughout his career: desire. In Hush and the three…
