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Death Warmed Over

Death Warmed Over

Christmas, Robert A.

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1678178314
ISBN13: 9781678178314
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: Mar 2 2022
Pages: 142
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
These poems, in the order they were written, are deeply Mormon, as are all of R. A. Christmas's writings. The subjects are various-aging, marriage, divorce, Utah history, international affairs, basketball, even song lyrics are thrown in (Christmas is a songwriter as well). But there are two major threads: The loss of his high-school girl-friend who loved Christmas into the Mormon Church, and who he was too immature and lacking in courage to marry; but who continued to love him through their subsequent marriages; and secondly, his obsession with, and sympathy for Dog (God), who in Mormon terms has to deal not only with the problems his pups on earth create, but also with his mate and family in Heaven, as well as Bad Pup (Satan). This second thread climaxes in the poem The Conference Talk, in which Joseph Smith, the Mormon prophet, tells Christmas (and all Mormons) that his job is to imitate Christ's sacrifice and become, in time and eternity, a God himself; and the first thread comes together in the poem At a Grave, (the girl's), where Christmas concludes that it's now best to forget her. But both solutions are problematic. Death can't be warmed over completely.

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