Reveille: Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781557286741)

In Reveille a man suffers fits of supernatural coughing, flytraps attack a child, a moray haunts a waterbed, and the prodigal son stalks his local brothel in a pair of lionhide pajamas. These poems survey their host of holy objects and exotic creatures the way one might the emblems in a dream: curious of their meanings but reluctant to interpret them and simplify their mystery. Theologically playful, rhetorically sophisticated, and formally ambitious, Reveille is rooted in awe and driven by the impulse to praise. At heart, these are love poems, though their loves are varied and complicated by terrible threats: that we will cry out and not be answered, fall asleep and never wake. Against such jeopardy Reveille fixes our attention on a lightening horizon.

Author: George David Clark
ISBN-10: 1557286744
ISBN-13: 9781557286741
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Language: English
Published: 02/25/2015
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.23lbs
Size: 8.33h x 6.96w x 0.15d