
To the Green Man
Poems
Published by: Sarabande Books
88 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 x 0.30 in
- Paperback
- 9781932511031
- Published: July 2004
$13.95
- Hardcover
- 9781932511024
- Published: July 2004
$20.95
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This collection leaps into the dangerous currents where poetry and reli-gion meet, and enlivens the lexicon of traditional American Christian belief by testing its doctrines and language against contemporary experience.
"Beyond the wonderful music of his lines . . . , what makes To the Green Man such an important and memor-able book is its enactment of a spiritual struggle to be at once at home in the world and astonished by it."—Alan Shapiro
Mark Jarman is a professor of English at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. His book The Black Riviera won the Poets’ Prize, and Questions for Ecclesiastes was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.