For the Mountain Laurel: Poems by Casteen, John

For the Mountain Laurel: Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780820337999)

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For the Mountain Laurel: Poems by Casteen, John

For the Mountain Laurel: Poems

$20.95
For the Mountain Laurel: Poems by Casteen, John

For the Mountain Laurel: Poems

$20.95
Format: Paperback
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In his second collection, Casteen moves inward from the physical labor and vernacular culture that shaped his first book, Free Union, yet continues to focus on landscape and human relationships. With poems arranged in the order in which they were completed (which in large part reflects the order in which they were first written), Casteen presents a poetic record of the experiences of solitude, marriage, fatherhood, loss, and recovery. The Carolina chickadee can be heard in this work, but so can Emmylou Harris singing with Gram Parsons; these poems dwell in the music of language, the hard truths of those who are no longer young, and the pleasures of the reflective life.

Author: John Casteen
ISBN-10: 0820337994
ISBN-13: 9780820337999
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2011
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.40d
By John Casteen
By John Casteen
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JOHN CASTEEN teaches at Sweet Briar College. He lives in Earlysville, Virginia. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, his poems have appeared in Ploughshares, the Georgia Review, the Iowa Review, Shenandoah, and other journals. He has contributed prose to Slate, VQR, and the Chronicle of Higher Education.

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