Strange land / Todd Hearon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hearon, Todd, 1968-

Series:

Crab Orchard award series in poetry.

Crab Orchard series in poetry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (85 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review : Southern Illinois University, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Todd Hearon's haunting debut collection chronicles the twin paths of isolation and desire in the search for meaning and union with others. On his pilgrimage through the lost worlds of earth and the soul, the speaker encounters drought in both the literal and spiritual sense as he confronts desolate landscapes, from the brown remnants of ruined cities, to the depths of the human heart and man's capacity for utter destruction. Yet even though he frequently encounters darkness, he never ceases to seek beauty. He is a man who wears many faces, from Adam, staring down a bleak futur

Contents:

Cover; Book Title; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Dantescan Fragment; One; Ancestors; To Childhood; Sundial; The Singers; Harry Farr; In Those Days; Song for the Returns; Atlantis; Strange Land; Two; Last Look; What Is Man That Thou Art Mindful of Him; De Profundis; After the Flood; World's End; After the President's Speech You Dream of Corpses; Caliban in After-Life; Translation; Psalm; Three; Sea Change; Four; Clothing for the Transformation; Voyager; Song for the Interstices; Nightcall. Going Nowhere; Pont du Loup; Specimen; Suppliant, Late April; Elegiac; Duet; History

Roman RoomCovenant; Adam Unparadised; Notes; Other Books in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-280-69717-2

9786613674135

0-8093-8568-6

OCLC:

649913251