A haunting and intimately observed new collection from David St. John, a poet of soaring imagination and passionate candor In The Last Troubadour, David St. John has given us a collection of new and selected poems of astonishing beauty, precise and keenly observed but also touched with sensuality and deep feeling. Nothing is too small to escape notice (in "Guitar" St. John reflects on the beauty of that word) or too large to be explored-the suicide of a friend, the illness of a lover, or the texture of longing and desire. A sharp observer of landscapes within and without, St. John directs his empathetic gaze and vivid, inventive voice to investigating both the darkest and the most inspiring parts of being human, the small moments between friends and lovers as well as the groundswells that alter lives. At times lyrical, sometimes conversational, occasionally wry and playful, St. John's poetry reveals an expansive vision animated by "intimacy and subtlety, and by a disturbing force, the work of an urgent sensibility and a true ear." (W. S. Merwin) The beauty, music, and artistry of David St. John's widely admired work is fully on display in this masterful collection.

The Last Troubadour - New and Selected Poems

A haunting and inventive book length sequence of poems from the distinguished author of Study for the World's Body. The Face is both fiercely lyrical and intimately conversational. Coming to terms with the failure of a great love, the speaker descends into his own dark night of the soul. Here are poems that explore the drama of the shattered self in a variety of voices, calling on memory to speak and imagination to make beauty from the shards. Slowly, the speaker reassembles his life and again finds faith in himself and the world. These poems reveal a swirling cinematic poetry of visionary scope; meditative and confessional in some moments, ironic and playful in others. Deeply passionate and raw in its candour, The Face may be for this generation of poets what Lowell's Life Studies and Ashbery's Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror were.

The Face - A Novella in Verse

Délicat, gracieux et éloquent, les poèmes de John Brandi révèlent qu'il reste un profond poète extraordinaire de prière et de louange. Il est le plus honorable et héroïque des ambitions - habiller notre monde brisé dans les vêtements de la langue, de la confiance et de l'espoir.

Il n'y a rien de «encore» dans les poèmes remarquablement viscéraux de la troisième collection d'Alexander Long, Still Life, et rien n'est au repos dans ces poèmes agités et énervés. Conversation et cinétique, ces poèmes tracent les traces laissées par les superpositions changeantes des modèles de littérature, de rock and roll et de culture contemporaine. Alors que chaque poème de Still Life tente de se concentrer sur une scène ou un sujet, les natures protéiformes sous la vue attirent le poète dans les tourbillons et les complexités de la réflexion. Il s'agit d'une collection puissante et émouvante de poèmes.

Il y avait des moments où la dépression, l'anxiété, peu importe, m'empêchaient d'écrire. Je suis toujours déprimé et anxieux, mais je ne le laisse pas m'arrêter. Je viens d'apprendre à le déplacer d'un côté si je veux travailler.

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