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Newly Not Eternal - by George David Clark (Paperback)

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  • Equal parts elegy and ode, Newly Not Eternal explores the startling suffering and sentiment implicit in human mortality.
  • About the Author: George David Clark was born in Savannah, Georgia, and now lives in McMurray, Pennsylvania, with his wife and their four children.
  • 98 Pages
  • Poetry, American

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"The poems in George David Clark's Newly Not Eternal imagine God as both an inhuman wall beyond time and mortality and as the little, fist-sized punctures that disturb that faðcade. Whether searching for transcendence or probing the supernatural, these poems equally fear and challenge divinity. In the background of the book-and foregrounded in a crown of sonnets titled "Ultrasound"-is the absence left by the author's son, Henry, who died in childbirth in 2014. Henry's identical twin brother, Peter, survived, and one of the book's themes is the distorted reflection of eternal things inside those that age and eventually end. Much of the collection is set not in the "real" world, but some place slightly askew from reality. In addition to various versions of the author himself, the speakers of these poems include an imaginary friend, a guardian angel, a genie, and the architect of a black igloo. The book's longest poem imagines a city in which every adult is honored with a statue made in their likeness and placed in the public gardens. Such a setting allows Clark to meditate on the degree to which a person can be captured in a static image, how we both resist and embrace being fixed in place. Most of the collection is rhymed and metered, but Clark's poems wear their forms lightly, often fracturing pentameter units across two or three short lines to soften the effect of regular end rhyme and elevate internal echoes. Ultimately, Newly Not Eternal is obsessed with escaping time, if only briefly in the imagination or in some enduring echo that haunts the mortal ear"--



Book Synopsis



Equal parts elegy and ode, Newly Not Eternal explores the startling suffering and sentiment implicit in human mortality. At the heart of this collection, a son has died on the cusp of his first breath, but the book's stakes are larger and more universal than a single, silent, foreshortened life. Ranging from personal lyrics to monologues in persona, from triolets to a modified crown of sonnets, from surreal fantasy to natural landscape, George David Clark's poems sing of the brutality of time and the beauty that transcends it.



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"Clark's beautiful and moving second collection of poems, Newly Not Eternal, is a wonderful showcase for his formidable formal talents. The subtle display of formal variations here enhances his deeply contemplative project--that of interrogating faith with a poet's ear and eye and a generous, open heart."--Sidney Wade

"Clark's poems are precise and memorable--songs in which deep feeling provokes startlingly fresh language. They are passionate poems, and the music that they make is true to the experience, reliably so, and amply."--David Yezzi

"George David Clark's new book of poems is as much a musical event as it is a literary one. This poet truly listens to every last word he sets to paper--good luck resisting the urge to give voice to these poems as you read them! A treasure of a book."--Amit Majmudar



About the Author



George David Clark was born in Savannah, Georgia, and now lives in McMurray, Pennsylvania, with his wife and their four children. The editor of 32 Poems, he is associate professor of English at Washington & Jefferson College. His previous collection, Reveille, won the Miller Williams Poetry Priz
Dimensions (Overall): 8.5 Inches (H) x 5.5 Inches (W) x .23 Inches (D)
Weight: .29 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: American
Genre: Poetry
Number of Pages: 98
Publisher: LSU Press
Theme: General
Format: Paperback
Author: George David Clark
Language: English
Street Date: January 31, 2024
TCIN: 90505217
UPC: 9780807181270
Item Number (DPCI): 247-42-6269
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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