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.

Grace (Pitt Poetry Series)

Literature & Fiction

Hodgen, John

Poetry

University of Pittsburgh Press

“Heaven &amp; Earth Holding Company contains a plentitude of delights. Like little stories told in the night, these poems are clear narratives crossed by mysterious shadows. And Hodgen’s tone occupies a singular place at the intersection of funky wit and true feeling.” ―Billy Collins

Heaven & Earth Holding Company (Pitt Poetry Series)

This winner of the Balcones Prize for Poetry contains poems of family, love, betrayal, belief, and profound speculation. It is a poetry of long, musical lines, astonishingly original metaphor, and clear and direct voice. This is a remarkably intimate and moving work.

Bread Without Sorrow (Lynx House Press)

Lynx House Press

Out of print since 1994, In My Father's House is offered again in a beautiful new edition.

In My Father's House: Poems

The poems in The Lord of Everywhere are about strength and courage and the will to hold on, about home and homelessness, and the tension that floats like Emily's feather between knowing what home means and finding our true home. These poems praise those caught between glaciers of clarity and wildfires of cruelty, those who take that "new step," which Dostoevsky called our greatest fear. These poems honor those who make their way home each day, together or alone, and who still believe, somehow, inexplicably, almost wordlessly, in love that endures, even in the flames.

The Lord of Everywhere

John Hodgen's What We May Be is a cry of love and pain (and he makes them almost indistinguishable) on behalf of the human race, its history, its future, its lovely possibilities that seem always out of reach. The poems of this award-winning poet declare again and again that the reaching itself defines the best in us, and he is cheering us on.

What We May Be

Univ of Washington Pr

From the Publisher\nWinner of the 2002 Balcones Award 
"In My Father's House is simply one of the most powerful books of poems I have read in a long, long time. He celebrates our humanity as he looks, unblinking, at the misery of the world with intensity, integrity and compassion. Some of these poems are absolutely haunting." -- Jim Daniels 
"John Hodgen's book is a remarkable achievement, with poem after poem facing the relentlessness of the world and delivering life to us with clarity and an art so deft as to seem invisible. But the art is there and brings something new to poetry which I am delighted to greet with warmth and enthusiasm." -- Vern Rutsala\nBread Without Sorrow is the winner of the 2002 Balcones Award.

Bread without Sorrow (Lynx House Book)

Carnegie-Mellon University Press

<div class=""> <div class="">Liberties, a Journal of Culture and Politics,&nbsp;is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural and political issues of our time.&nbsp;</div> </div> <div class=""> </div> <div class="">In this issue of&nbsp;Liberties:&nbsp;Michael Ignatieff&nbsp;- The Mind's Emancipation;&nbsp;Mary Gaitskill&nbsp;-&nbsp;The Trials of the Young;&nbsp;Sergei Lebedev&nbsp;- Putin's Philosopher: A Memoir;&nbsp;Michael Walzer&nbsp;- Moral Concern;&nbsp;Justin E. H. Smith&nbsp;- The Happiness Industrial Complex;&nbsp;Andrew Scull&nbsp;- The Fashions in Trauma;&nbsp;David A. Bell&nbsp;- The Triumph of Anti-Politics in America;&nbsp;Michael Kimmage&nbsp;- A Defense of Delight in a Dark Time;&nbsp;Robert Alter&nbsp;- Proust and the Mystification of the Jews;&nbsp;Steven B. Smith&nbsp;- What is a Statesman?;&nbsp;Benjamin Moser&nbsp;- Rembrandt's shadows;&nbsp;Helen Vendler&nbsp;- The Poetry of Charm;&nbsp;Celeste Marcus&nbsp;- Priorism, or the Joshua Katz Affair;&nbsp;Leon Wieseltier&nbsp;- Problems and Struggles; and, new poems by&nbsp;Karen Solie,&nbsp;Adam Zagajewski, and&nbsp;John Hodgen.</div> <div class=""> <div class=""> </div> <div class="">Published quarterly,&nbsp;Liberties,&nbsp;is a collection of the most significant writers today as well as launching the voices of tomorrow.</div> Liberties&nbsp;features serious, independent, stylish, and controversial essays by significant writers and introduces the next generation of writers and poets to inspire and impact the intellectual and creative lifeblood of today's culture and politics.&nbsp;Nobel Prize winners, leading op-ed writers, well-known non-fiction writers, rising talents, and poets from around the world are part of the&nbsp;Liberties&nbsp;series. There's a reason why engaged citizens, cultural warriors, political leaders, opinion makers, and activists from across the cultural and political spectrum read and cherish&nbsp;Liberties. </div>

Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume III, Issue 2

Vendler, Helen

GAITSKILL, Mary

Moser, Benjamin

Bell, David A.

Walzer, Michael

IGNATIEFF, Michael

Alter, Robert

Zagajewski, Adam

Scull, Andrew

Solie, Karen

Lebedev, Sergei

Smith, Steven B.

Smith, Justin E.H.

Bouis, Antonia

Kimmage, Michael C.

Arts & Photography

Liberties Journal

In My Father's House: Poems (The Bluestem Poetry Series)

Bluestem Pr

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