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by: Andrew Hudgins
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780395457139
ISBN: 0395457130
Label: Mariner Books
Manufacturer: Mariner Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: June 19, 1989
Publisher: Mariner Books
Sales Rank: 688384
Studio: Mariner Books
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Andrew Hudgins imagines himself in the life of a now largely forgotten poet, Sidney Lanier, who served as a soldier for the Confederacy.
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Rating:  - Astounding.
Andrew Hudgins, After the Lost War: A Narrative (Houghton Mifflin, 1988)
I read Hudgins' collection The Never-Ending a few months back, and after I had finished praising it, a friend of mine told me that I had to read After the Lost War as soon as possible. Well, I just finished it.
Houghton Mifflin bought centuries off the time they will spend in purgatory for all those dry-as-dust textbooks with this collection. Hudgins based this series of poems loosely on the life of Civil ... Read More
Rating:  - a great narrative series
"Sometimes, like now, I have a great need
To live outside metaphor,
To know a dawn that's only dawn
And corn that's corn and nothing else."
In the many discussions of poetry that have been had, one question brought up by the novice is why do some poets write their stories in poems rather than fiction. The answer has always been to point to the classic epics or to the narrative poems of Frost, Robinson, and so on. I've recently found contemporary narratives that I can point ... Read More
Rating: - a great narrative series
In the many discussions of poetry that have been had, one question brought up by the novice is why do some poets write their stories in poems rather than fiction. The answer has always been to point to the classic epics or to the narrative poems of Frost, Robinson, and so on. I've recently found contemporary narratives that I can point to. Dave Mason's "The Country I Remember", the book-length narrative sequences by Marilyn Nelson, "The Homeplace", and Kim Addonizio, "Jimmy & Rita." And now I have ... Read More
Rating: - Incredible Narrative Poetry
This is one of the finest volumes of narrative poetry there is buy it you won't be dissapointed. Hudgins captures the soul of Sidney Lanier puts it on the page. I read this book for the first time two years ago and is still one of the best I've read. Enough so that I felt obligated to log on here and post this. On a side note I met Hudgins today, the man is brilliant, hilarious, and just a really really great guy.
Rating: - Andrew Hudgins put my soul in jeopardy.
When I was reading this volume, I drove to Sunday Mass early and sat for a few minutes in the car. I finished this book in the parking lot and never went to Mass. Normally, I would feel obliged to bring deliberating skipping Mass to confession. This time, I shall not. I immediately phoned my local bookseller and he obtained for me a signed first edition which I handed to my wife and told her it is all I want for my birthday in March. I then got on line and ordered five additional paperback copies to ... Read More
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