John Stanford Owen

Broschiertes Buch

Second Prayer

Beschreibung

Second Prayer creates gut-punch portraits of daydreaming laborers and drunken rages, skinny-dipping and scarecrows, suspected murders and specters who loiter on rooftops. While these narrative poems use unrelenting candor to unveil the crushing violence of poverty, the writer delivers verses with a musical language that balances both lyric and storytelling traditions. The contrasting collage creates a symphony of brutality and beauty, rhythm and ruckus, sadness and serenity. It reminds us that our messiest moments are also our most human.

Autor

John Stanford Owen writes poetry and essays that appear in Chicago Quarterly Review, storySouth, Third Coast, and the Southeast Review, among other magazines. He received his MFA from Southern Illinois University, where he also taught English classes. Over the years, his work has gained critical nods from the Academy of American Poets and the Best New Poets anthology series. These days, JSO lives in Louisville, Kentucky with his wife and dog.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Summer Camp Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 36
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 102mm x 2mm
• Gewicht: 27g
• ISBN-13: 9781735363714
• ISBN-10: 1735363715
• Artikelnr.: 60208848