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Paradise : Poems

By Stephen Gibson

Book information

Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Year
2011
ISBN
9781610754798, 9781557289599
LCC
PS3557
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
251 kB (256842 bytes)
Pages
74\74
Time added
2023-08-08 02:49:06
Paradise -- Poetry.

Description

In "Paradise," Stephen Gibson's fourth poetry collection, we are taken on a journey through history and myth, wars past and present, public discoveries and private loss. As the reader confronts past horrors and present truths as well as the speaker's personal ones (an abused mother, a shellshocked father), it becomes apparent that the paradise sought-not in the hereafter but in the here and now-lies just beyond reach. It all ends, suggest these verses, with the understanding that behind everything we find nothing more divine than the human.

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