A childhood in the Milky Way
becoming a poet in Ohio
by David B. Hopes
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"How does a young boy discover his vocation as a poet in what is seemingly the least poetical of environments, the industrial Midwest of the 1950s and 1960s? By turns comic and dramatic, at once down to earth and otherworldly in its homegrown mysticism, A Childhood in the Milky Way answers that question, lighting up a special boyhood in one small corner of the galaxy.
Part memoir, part meditation on what it means to be a poet in America at the end of the millennium, this book follows the early life of David Brendan Hopes in Akron, Ohio, where the going was sometimes rough and the people rougher, though they could also be fanciful, naive, driven by inarticulate desire, and, on occasion, haunted by the voices of angels and bards.
In his growing up, the author found in the mysteries of childhood a way to enter the mysteries of religious and artistic vision."--BOOK JACKET.
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American Poets, Biography, Childhood and youth, Homes and haunts, Intellectual life, Social life and customsPeople
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A childhood in the Milky Way: becoming a poet in Ohio
1999, University of Akron Press
in English
1884836453 9781884836459
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