Grace

By John Hodgen

Winner of the 2005 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry.
Grace is John Hodgen's third book of poetry. He is a poet of extreme contrasts, offering us the dregs of despair, yet instantly recalling hope in the beauty of nature or in a moment in time when all is right, when we realize grace. In "For the Leapers" the narrator relates, "We will fall past the angels, / we will fall from such height, / our tears will lift up from our eyes. / We will fall straight through hell. / And then we will rise." Hodgen's poems roam through history, religion, man-made disasters, baseball, pop culture, and Wal-Marts, on paths that come full circle with remarkable completeness, maturity, and dexterity.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822959321
• ISBN13: 9780822959328
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"