"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,...
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 th...
