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Overview"ADAM'S DREAM is John Herman's second book-length collection of poems. In 2021 his first collection, WHITE SUMMER, was released. He has previously published four novels, including THE WEIGHT OF LOVE, a 1995 Nan Talese Book that was selected by PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY as one of the best novels of the year. He has been a professor, editor, and novelist, but has never ceased his devotion to poetry, which he began writing as an adolescent. Herman writes that his roots as a poet lie in the Modern tradition, and behind that in the Romantic and Symbolist writers of the 19th century, with their belief that poetry represents a unique form of discourse. Language-its words, images, metaphors-offer meanings and implications, Mr. Herman suggests, that lie embodied in the poetry itself, making of poetry a continuing, cumulative experience. Individual poems can be seen as fragments salvaged from the great unfinished epic of the human imagination. In one of his letters Keats wrote that ""The Imagination can be compared to Adam's dream----he woke and found it truth."" ADAM'S DREAM can, then, be seen as a collection of such ""salvaged fragments"" which, like the Imagination in Keats' parable, prove, upon waking, to be portions of that ongoing Epic which is Truth, with or without a capital ""T""." Full Product DetailsAuthor: John J HermanPublisher: Eterneditions/Child Account for Heliotrope Books Imprint: Eterneditions/Child Account for Heliotrope Books Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.218kg ISBN: 9781956474497ISBN 10: 1956474498 Pages: 166 Publication Date: 21 June 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |