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How God Ends Us: Poems

How God Ends Us: Poems

Alexander, Elizabeth
Dameron-John, Délana

Paperback

Series: South Carolina Poetry Book Prize

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1570038325
ISBN13: 9781570038327
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: Apr 19 2009
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.30
Language: English

Poetic conversations with a God whose omnipotence brings both peace and uncertainty

DéLana R. A. Dameron searches for answers to spiritual quandaries in her first collection of poems, How God Ends Us, selected by Elizabeth Alexander as the fourth annual winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize. Dameron's poetry forms a lyrical conversation with an ominous and omnipotent deity, one who controls all matters of the living earth, including death and destruction. The poet's acknowledgement of the breadth of this power under divine jurisdiction moves her by turns to anger, grief, celebration, and even joy. From personal to collective to imagined histories, Dameron's poems explore essential, perennial questions emblemized by natural disasters, family struggles, racism, and the experiences of travel abroad. Though she reaches for conclusions that cannot be unveiled, her investigations exhibit the creative act of poetry as a source of consolation and resolution.

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