num_pages: 72
description: Grace is John Hodgen’s third book of poetry. He is a poet of extreme contrasts, offering us the dregs of despair, yet instantly recalling hope in the beauty of nature or in a moment in time when all is right, when we realize grace. In “For the Leapers” the narrator relates, “We will fall past the angels, / we will fall from such height, / our tears will lift up from our eyes. / We will fall straight through hell. / And then we will rise.” Hodgen’s poems roam through history, religion, man-made disasters, baseball, pop culture, and Wal-Marts, on paths that come full circle with remarkable completeness, maturity, and dexterity.
language: English
title: Grace
titlecomplete: Grace (Pitt Poetry Series)
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 28
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Paterson Poetry Prize
publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press