Paradise: Poems
by Stephen Gibson
University of Arkansas Press, 2011
Paper: 978-1-55728-959-9 | eISBN: 978-1-61075-479-8
Library of Congress Classification PS3557.I225P37 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54
ABOUT THIS BOOK
In Paradise, Stephen Gibson's fourth poetry collection, we are taken on a journey through history and myth, wars past and present, public discoveries and private loss. As the reader confronts past horrors and present truths as well as the speaker's personal ones (an abused mother, a shellshocked father), it becomes apparent that the paradise sought-not in the hereafter but in the here and now-lies just beyond reach. It all ends, suggest these verses, with the understanding that behind everything we find nothing more divine than the human.
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