The Auroras New Poems
The Auroras New Poems by David St. John is a collection published by HarperCollins on March 20, 2012, featuring 96 pages in English. This work showcases St. John’s imaginative prowess and poetic skill, presenting a triptych of three distinct movements that explore various themes and styles. The collection opens with a series of urgent and sensually charged poems, setting a provocative tone that invites readers into a world of desire and exploration.
Readers will find a rich tapestry of experiences within The Auroras, as St. John reflects on his California roots in the central section, where the poems evoke both beauty and psychological complexity. The final movement serves as an album of meditations that confronts themes of mortality, framing artistic and intellectual pursuits within the context of inevitable darkness. This edition offers a comprehensive look at St. John’s artistic journey, making it a significant addition to the landscape of American poetry.
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An exciting, long-awaited collection from the National Book Award finalist, a poet of wild imagination and formidable accomplishment
David St. John’s new collection of poetry, The Auroras, is the most provocative, adventurous, and stylistically eclectic work of his career. Composed as a triptych of three distinct movements, it opens with a sequence of urgent, subversive, sensually charged poems, crackling with desire.
In the center section, St. John returns to the California landscapes of his youth, in both the San Joaquin Valley and the Sierra Nevada Mountains. These poems are quiet and measured, yet often psychologically troubling.
The final section of The Auroras is constructed as an album of philosophical and aesthetic meditations, all haunted by the force of an emerging sense of mortality. In this collection, even the most compelling emanations of light—artistic, intellectual, sexual, or spiritual—are inevitably framed by impending darkness.
The beauty, music, and artistry of David St. John’s poetry have been long admired; now The Auroras reveals the extent and breadth of his masterful poetic achievement.
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