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The face
a novella in verse
By St John, David
- ISBN
- 978-0-06059-366-7
- Publisher
- New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2004.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on March 1, 2004
Though dubbed a novella, St. John's eighth volume of poetry is less a narrative than a phantasmagoric dream diary or extended dramatic monolog. The speaker is a Hollywood jet-setter who's lost his (or perhaps her) sense of identity and strives to recapture it through a series of fevered meditations on past loves and exotic travels, waxing metaphorical on "the fluent confetti of the soul...a self/ Assembled like...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
