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    Earth Triumphant: Early Poetry of Conrad Aiken
    Earth Triumphant: Early Poetry of Conrad Aiken
    Earth Triumphant: Early Poetry of Conrad Aiken
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    Earth Triumphant: Early Poetry of Conrad Aiken

    Written by Conrad Aiken

    Narrated by Robert Bethune

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    About this audiobook

    In Charnel Rose, Conrad Aiken takes the plunge into a deeply metaphysical and surrealistic world, capturing the essence of one aspect of quintessential humanity: how we create and pursue a deeply personal, intensely idealistic, physically and emotionally draining search for love, and how some of us turn away from real love when we do find it, preferring instead to re-invent and re-amplify our idealistic vision of passionate perfection.

    He does this through an amazing combination of highly imaginative imagery conveyed through strikingly simple and beautiful poetry, musically complex and intensely rhythmic without empty literary gesture or hollow convention.

    The first part of the book is "Senlin," a study of the complex reality of a man who is part stonemason, part philosopher, and possibly part ancient deity.

    The second part of the book is "Variations," short, intense poems that ring the changes on intimate relationships.

    The third and last part of the book is "Charnel Rose," from which the book takes its name; this explores the passions and self-delusions we all go through in the name of love.

    Enjoy!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFreshwater Seas
    Release dateNov 2, 2011
    ISBN9781933311647
    Earth Triumphant: Early Poetry of Conrad Aiken
    Author

    Conrad Aiken

    Conrad Aiken (1889–1973) was an American poet, novelist, and short story author, and one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century. His numerous honors include the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Award for Poetry, the Bollingen Prize, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal. Born in Savannah, Georgia, Aiken was orphaned at a young age and was raised by his great-great-aunt in Massachusetts. He attended Harvard University with T. S. Eliot and was a contributing editor to the influential literary journal the Dial, where he befriended Ezra Pound. Aiken published more than fifty works of poetry, fiction, and criticism, including the novels Blue Voyage, Great Circle, King Coffin, A Heart for the Gods of Mexico, and Conversation, and the widely anthologized short stories “Silent Snow, Secret Snow” and “Mr. Arcularis.” He played a key role in establishing Emily Dickinson’s status as a major American poet, mentored a young Malcolm Lowry, and served as the US poet laureate from 1950 to 1952. Aiken returned to Savannah eleven years before his death; the epitaph on his tombstone in Bonaventure Cemetery reads: Cosmos Mariner, Destination Unknown.

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