Heaven Is to Your Left

✍ Scribed by Vanda Writer

• Book ID: 100376120
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 131 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ASIN: B07KJNTLZK

✦ Synopsis

"Heaven & 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.;"It is amazing how quickly John Hodgen's poems can somersault from hilarity to broken hope, from mousetraps to mantraps to everything we have yearned for filled to the eyeballs with the peril of mortal love. And he does it while tiptoeing along the very edge of a kind of open-handed formality not seen in our poetry for a long time, a formality always threatening to break, and sometimes indeed breaking, beautifully, under the weight of feeling on the one hand and truth on the other. This is a remarkable book."--Christopher Howell.;Contents -- I ... must i remember? . . . -- Undiscovering America -- Girl with Her Tongue Stuck Out -- Just a Tranquil Darker -- When Dylan Left Hibbing, Minnesota, August 1959 -- High Tide -- Romance -- Keats -- Upon Reading in Elmore Leonardâ€?s The Hot Kid that Church Pews in the 1930s Were Made by Convicts -- Killing Mice, December -- Sorrow -- Watson;"These are wise, wisecracking poems that rue and mock our human failings, but always preserve and honor our humanness. I am grateful for the deeply spiritual and all-embracing expanse of these poems that cherish the beautiful mess of our lives with humor and compassion. Here is an art that knows how we stumble, one endless mistake after another, ' into the heart's true song."--Robert Cording --Book Jacket.