New Songs of Innocence - Paperback
by S. J. Hodson
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Availability:In StockContributor:S. J. Hodson, Michael Davis (Foreword by)Publish date:6/30/2025Pages:98
Language:EnglishPublisher:St. Augustine's PressISBN-13:9781587315541ISBN-10:1587315548UPC:9781587315541Book Category:PoetrySize:8.50 x 5.40 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.4806Product ID:SC6XJ2T274
New Songs of Innocence
"Poetry is language at play. In New Songs of Innocence S.J. Hodson is hard at work in this playground teasing us with syllabic verse ("Beside Himself with Calm"), haiku stanzas ("A Cougar Strolled By"), sonnet, ("Sonnet for Miriam"), and villanelle ("A Poet's Dark Night of the Soul"). He relishes the natural rhythm of speech and knows how to polish it metrically. He rhymes in wonderfully complex...
Language:EnglishPublisher:St. Augustine's PressISBN-13:9781587315541ISBN-10:1587315548UPC:9781587315541Book Category:PoetrySize:8.50 x 5.40 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.4806Product ID:SC6XJ2T274
S. J. Hodson studied with Annie Dillard and completed his thesis, a collection of poems called Beside Ourselves With Calm. In 1984, a long poem from that collection, "Movement in a Solid--a Composite Figure of the Poet in the 20th Century" (included in this volume) was awarded a Pablo Neruda Prize in Poetry by Nimrod literary journal.
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