No Other Gods - Softcover

Hearon, Todd

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1910669164 ISBN 13: 9781910669167

Publisher: Salmon Poetry, 2015

Synopsis

No Other Gods, draws richly on Hearon's gifts as poet and dramatist. From the sonnets and nonce-forms interspersed throughout, to its central thousand-line verse monologue, No Other Gods strikes the full octave with a jazzed, symphonic roots-music. In its play of masks and voices, one meets a pantheon both sacred and profane-Mnemosyne, Priapus; memory and desire-from Pasiphae, ""that daughter of the sun,"" to a junked-out ""toothless whore named Cookie"" of our own century. With mythopoetic propulsion and expanse, No Other Gods is, ultimately, a paean to the human imagination, the force that in the face of negation and nothingness, ""sings well into the night.""

About this title

About the Author:

Todd Hearon is the author of Strange Land, winner of the Crab Orchard Poetry Series Open Competition, judged by former United States Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey. He has received a PEN/New England Discovery Award; the Friends of Literature Prize from Poetry magazine and the Poetry Foundation; the Rumi Prize in Poetry; and the Campbell Corner Poetry Prize. His poems and plays have appeared in literary journals throughout the U.S. and abroad, including AGNI, Arts & Letters, Belleville Park Pages, Cincinnati Review, Harvard Review, Kenyon Review, Literary Imagination, Memorious, Ploughshares, Poetry, Poetry Ireland, Poetry London, Poetry Northeast, New Ohio Review, Salamander, Slate, Sleepers Almanac, Southern Review and Southwest Review. He teaches in Exeter, New Hampshire.

About this edition

• Publisher: Salmon Poetry
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1910669164
• ISBN 13: 9781910669167
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 86