Charles Hughes

The Evening Sky

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Robert B. Shaw describes Hughes' new collection as showing "a sensitivity both to things of this world and things of the spirit, a compassionate shrewdness," and Stephen Gibson, winner of the Miller Williams Poetry Prize, says "this knockout collection is one to return to again and again-here, individual ambition and personal failure intersect with the literary and historical: as Lear misunderstands love for what it isn't, so a father fails family in not understanding self; although My Lai occurs far away-and far back in time-it still haunts memory even in a suburb." "These poems touch the spirit, love driving all of the narratives-of growing up in the 1960's, of baseball and fishing, of encounters in his life as an attorney, of complexities in his relationship with his father, and of the devotion so evident in his long marriage. Hughes' aesthetic is anchored in the sacramental, his poems words made flesh, visible signs of inward grace. Somehow he does all of this in poems carefully wrought and perfectly crafted." -Jill Peláez Baumgaertner, poetry editor of The Christian Century and author of What Cannot Be Fixed

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiseblood Books
• Seitenzahl: 78
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 209mm x 132mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 198g
• ISBN-13: 9781951319984
• ISBN-10: 1951319982
• Artikelnr.: 60860690

Autorenporträt

Charles Hughes was born in Chicago, Illinois. He earned a B.A. from Augustana College, in Rock Island, Illinois, and a J.D. from Northwestern University, and worked as a lawyer for thirty-three years before his retirement. His poems have appeared in America, the Anglican Theological Review, Dappled Things, First Things, the Iron Horse Literary Review, Measure, The Rotary Dial, the Sewanee Theological Review, Verse Wisconsin, and elsewhere. He lives with his wife in the Chicago area.