The Last Christian City: and Other Poems

ISBN-13: 9781516836987 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 180 str.

Charles Corden

Opis

From a morning walk in the woods to a final walk to Golgotha and the Crucifixion, this new collection of nearly sixty poems, The Last Christian City and Other Poems by charles corden, includes works of many genres. They range from an account of President Lincoln in Richmond, the capitol of the Confederacy, to the homecoming of a marine from China after World War II; from the exodus of early man from Africa to the pangs of a first love in high school; and from the emergence of a basketball star to the death of a beloved pet. The title poem, The Last Christian City, chronicles the fall of Constantinople (Istanbul) to the Ottoman Turks, thus putting an end to the long history of the Roman Empire and to the age of antiquity. The collection is rich in examples of different poetic forms: free verse (On a Photograph of My Children); blank verse (Mending Fences); couplet (Love), sonnet (Elise); pantoum (Rock and Roll Poet); elegy (A Single Rose); haikus (Haiku I and II); jazz (Who's That Knocking At Mah Door); metaphysical (Witness); myth (Blue Light); prose (The Market); and so forth. Much of the poetry being written today requires multiple readings in order to be understood. With this requirement, charles believes the attractiveness of poetry is lost to the public, especially among the young. If this constraint was applied to the reading of children's books, young adult fiction, mysteries, science-fiction, and so forth, it is clear that literacy in our country would take a major hit. Charles is proud that his poems can be understood with one or, at the most, two readings. Poetry can be fun, educational, and, yes, even interesting.