In Paradise, Stephen Gibson's fourth poetry collection, we are taken on a journey through history and myth, wars past and present, public discoveries and private loss. As the reader confronts past horrors and present truths as well as the speaker's personal ones (an abused mother, a shellshocked father), it becomes apparent that the paradise sought-not in the hereafter but in the here and now-lies just beyond reach. It all ends, suggest these verses, with the understanding that behind everything we find nothing more divine than the human.
- ISBN13 9781557289599
- Publish Date 28 February 2011
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Arkansas Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 70
- Language English