This probing book of poetry is structured around one man's quest for healing and salvation. From his high school years in Texas during the early 1960s through his college teaching career 30 years later, the male persona of these poems searches for his lost father, for forgiveness and faith, for love and family. Throughout the collection, seven poems trace events from Saint Paul's quest for healing, proving a complement to the struggles of the contemporary man. The miracle that is life is chronicled here in terse and moving poems. The Vietnam Vet Looks for His Sons at Summer Basketball Camp Basketballs drum the floor. A hundred hearts race up and down the court. Intent as salmon leaping up the falls, these middle schoolers drive for backboards, spin lay ups through the hoops. Young men on the evening news slam chunks of metal down a pipe they aim toward towns where other boys draw circles in the dirt, spill out their bags of marbles. 'Vivid and touching...from Vietnam to North Hollywood, from Abilene to Damascus [Fink] lay[s] permanent claim to a wide territory' - X. J. Kennedy.
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A book of poetry structured around one man's quest for healing and salvation. It traces events from Saint Paul's quest for healing, proving a complement to the struggles of the contemporary man.
Why Is It !951, His Father Squeezed His Arm Summer of '67 For this Cause Following a Sharp Disagreement, Barnabas Breaks From Paul, Sails With Mark to Cyprus And Who Shall Separate Us? After Athens, Paul Refuses to Use the Devices of Greek Philosophy Rotation Woodbridge, Virginia The Unfurnished Apartment Overrun, He Calls a Napalm Strike Upon His Position Let Each Man Abide First House Paul Shares His Secret What It Takes In Training The Assistant Professor Considers His Options How He Came to Write Poetry Speaking in Tongues: The Calling Courtly Love At Eighteen Last Words Hitting Fungoes After the Funeral Saul Tries to Explain How Hard It Was for the Apostles to Believe His Conversion The Beach Boys Claimed an Angel Stirred the Waters Marathon Wax Not After the Lusts of Deceit The Ex-Grunt Writes His Last Letter to His Former Professor A Common Dream Paul Performs a Miracle Homecoming The Hot Corner The Vietnam Vet Looks for His Sons at Summer Basketball Camp Nearing the End of His Journey, Paul Considers What Comfort He Has Brought His Friends Procreation Touch The Poet Already Missing His Sons Breakdown Welcome Home, Stranger Paul Completes the Path to Sainthood St. Francis of Abilene The Writer-In-Residence Interrupts My Scheduled Run Just Off Beulah Street Laying on of Hands To My Sons On Father's Day
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ISBN
9780896723412
Publisert
1994-01-15
Utgiver
Texas Tech Press,U.S.
Vekt
322 gr
Høyde
236 mm
Bredde
158 mm
Dybde
13 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
80

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