David St John, Author . HarperCollins $24.95 (63p) ISBN 978-0-06-059366-7
St. John's ninth collection is roughly plotted around a midlife crisis: "Each day, in the mirror, that face smeared a bit more brutally/ Across the glass." In order to push the narcissism to its limits, St. John confronts his speaker...
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David St John, Author Harper Perennial $22 (142p) ISBN 978-0-06-055349-4
This dazzling collection opens with the cinematic ``Slow Dance'' from St. John's ( Hush ) first book, and ends with the brilliantly conceived title poem, an extended meditation on the ``body of desire,'' placed alongside a skeletally-shaped elegy...
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David St John, Author, David St John, Author White Pine Press (NY) $15 (256p) ISBN 978-1-877727-46-7
This disjointed collection contains St. John's (Hush, The Shore) writings on the work of other poets, interviews with him about his own poetry and one beautiful, imagistic letter about an afternoon in Rome. The essays and reviews about work by...
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David St John, Author, David St John, Author White Pine Press (NY) $16 (174p) ISBN 978-1-877727-90-0
The melancholic wisdom of St. John's sixth collection seems hard-won: his is the post-lapsarian ""solitary way"" of love lost daily and sex cheapened by night. Confessionally breathless, the syntax of these poems seems not spontaneous but rather...
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