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The Auroras

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David St. John’s new collection of poetry, The Auroras, is the most provocative, adventurous, and stylistically eclectic work of his career. Composed as a triptych of three distinct movements, it opens with a sequence of sensually charged poems, urgent, subversive, crackling with desire.

In the poems of the center section, St. John returns to the California landscapes of his youth, both in the San Joaquin Valley and the Sierra Nevada mountains. These poems are quiet and measured, yet often psychologically troubling.

The final section of The Auroras is constructed as an album of philosophical and aesthetic meditations, all haunted by the force of an emerging sense of mortality. In this collection, even the most compelling emanations of light—artistic, intellectual, sexual, or spiritual—are inevitably framed by the impending darkness.

The beauty, music, and artistry of David St. John’s poetry have been long admired; now, The Auroras reveals the extent and breadth of this masterful poetic achievement.



About the Author :
Prize-winning author David St. John is the author of ten collections of poetry, including Study for the World’s Body: New and Selected Poems, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, as well as Where the Angels Come Toward Us, a volume of essays, interviews, and reviews. He is the co-editor, with Cole Swenson, of American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry. He teaches literature and creative writing in the graduate program at the University of Southern California, and lives in Venice Beach.

Review :
"Expressive, gestural, and image-laden, St. John's lines fairly hum with the pleasure of their own making." - The New Yorker (on THE RED LEAVES OF NIGHT)
"It's not just gorgeous, it is go-for-broke gorgeous. It is made out of sentences, sweeping through and across the meticulous verse stanzas, that could have been written, for their velvet and intricate suavity, by Henry James. But that doesn't quite describe them, since they are also full, almost past ripeness, of a floating, sometimes painful, sometimes wistful, intense, dark, and silvery eroticism." - Robert Hass (on STUDY FOR THE WORLD'S BODY)
"Poems...full of magic and light...Essential for readers of contemporary poetry." - Library Journal (starred review)
"Read these poems slowly because this kind of writing does not happen overnight... THE AURORAS is luxurious whether dealing with the ordinary or the magnificent." - Grace Cavalieri, Washington Independent Review of Books


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780062088482
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: HarperCollins
  • Height: 236 mm
  • No of Pages: 96
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Width: 158 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0062088483
  • Publisher Date: 20 Mar 2012
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 282 gr


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