Description
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
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 02/25/2015
Pages: 80
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.23lbs
Size: 8.33h x 6.96w x 0.15d
ISBN13: 9781557286741
ISBN10: 1557286744
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General
Author: George David Clark
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 02/25/2015
Pages: 80
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.23lbs
Size: 8.33h x 6.96w x 0.15d
ISBN13: 9781557286741
ISBN10: 1557286744
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General
About the Author
George David Clark teaches poetry at Valparaiso University. His work has earned the Olive B. O'Connor Fellowship in Poetry and a Lily Postdoctoral Fellowship among other honors. He lives in Indiana and edits the journal 32 Poems.