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Born in Fresno, California, he was educated at California State University, Fresno, where he studied with poet Philip Levine, and at the University of Iowa, receiving an Master of Fine Arts in 1974.
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Hush
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Red Leaves of Night, The
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Possession and loss, rapture and despair: David St. John's narrator in this dazzling collection of poems remains unflinchingly aware that the trajectory between these two states is both brief and irresistible. Like modern Dante's Virgil, he guides us through a mosaic of experiences to depict the vast architecture of erotic desire and communion. The sexual bond, with its potential for the breakdown of all spiritual and physical boundaries between two formerly separate beings, becomes the site of almost unbearable psychological and erotic tension that runs throughout the collection. The Red Leaves of Nightfinds its breathtaking power in a recognition of the necessary impermanence of such communion, and gives voice to that most courageous of modern men--one who grasps the dangers of ecstasy yet cannot turn away.
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No Heaven
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Hush (Houghton Mifflin New Poetry Series)
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In the Pines: Lost Poems: 1972-1997
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A dazzling collection follows National Book Award finalist Study for the World's Body.
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David Saint John
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He is the author of nine books of poetry, including Study for the World"s Body: New and Selected Poems (1994),, and, as well as a volume of essays, interviews and reviews entitled Where the Angels Come Toward United States His most recent work is. He has also received several National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships (1976, 1984, 1994) a Guggenheim Fellowship (1994), and a grant from the Ingram Merrill Foundation.
His work has been published in many literary magazines, including The New Yorker, Paris Review,, American Review, Antaeus, Harper"s, and The New Republic, and has been widely anthologized.
Saint John has taught creative writing at Oberlin College and Johns Hopkins University.
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In the Pines: Lost Poems: 1972-1997
( A dazzling collection follows National Book Award final...)
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Red Leaves of Night, The
( Possession and loss, rapture and despair: David St. Joh...)
- Hush
- In the Pines: Lost Poems, 1972-1997
- No Heaven
- Hush (Houghton Mifflin New Poetry Series)
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In the Pines: Lost Poems: 1972-1997
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He currently teaches in the English Department at University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where he serves as Chair, and is one of the founding members of the University of Southern California Doctor of Philosophy in Creative Writing & Literature.
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