To the Green Man: PoemsThis collection leaps into the dangerous currents where poetry and reli-gion meet, and enlivens the lexicon of traditional American Christian belief by testing its doctrines and language against contemporary experience. "Beyond the wonderful music of his lines . . . , what makes To the Green Man such an important and memor-able book is its enactment of a spiritual struggle to be at once at home in the world and astonished by it."--Alan Shapiro Mark Jarman is a professor of English at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. His book The Black Riviera won the Poets' Prize, and Questions for Ecclesiastes was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. |
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TO THE GREEN MAN
User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictJarman's new collection is all about faith, which he links to the twin vocations of art and family as he moves from a quaint local legend ("the Green Man") to nature (the regard of a fox) to an ... Read full review
To the Green Man : Poems
User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictJarman's new collection is all about faith, which he links to the twin vocations of art and family as he moves from a quaint local legend ("the Green Man") to nature (the regard of a fox) to an ... Read full review