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Sherod Santos
Sherod Santos' brilliant new collection, The Burning World, shows us exactly why the New York Times Book Review has said, "Santos possesses an intensity akin to Rilke."
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In his book of prose, poet and essayist Sherod Santos takes a look into some of poetry’s deepest secrets, an investigation that leads him to the conclusion that poems have…
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Collects neo-Romantic poems dealing with the social and political concerns of the poet, including Greencastle, Red Advancing, and Book of Blessings. .
A vividly rendered collection tracing the aftermath of a breakdown and the struggle to reconnect with the realities of daily life.
A National Book Award finalist for 1999.
Sherod Santos explores death and rebirth, revealing the prosaic and mythic qualities of both.
Arranged into four periods - Classical, Hellenic, Roman and Early Byzantine - this work features works by such ancient masters as Xenophanes, Callimachus, Sappho and Simonides.
Santos captures moments of lyric intensity and beauty that feel as fresh today as when they were written. New Criterion
Sherod Santos brilliantly negotiates the provinces of poetry and prose, of imagination and memoir…. As enigmatic as Borges, and beautiful in a way only Santos can be. -David Baker
Beautifully rendered…. Santos’s greatest accomplishment here is not that he provides answers for the unanswerable, but that he convinces readers that love creates ‘words whose syllables we are laved in…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Sherod Santos’s Portrait of a Couple at Century’s End, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author…
