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    Practical Gods

    Pulitzer Prize Winner

    Part of Penguin Poets

    Author Carl Dennis
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    Penguin Adult HC/TR | Penguin Books
    5.82"W x 8.93"H x 0.26"D   | 4 oz | 24 per carton
    On sale Oct 01, 2001 | 96 Pages | 9780141002309
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    Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

    A critically acclaimed literary treasure, Practical Gods is a captivating poetry collection that transcends conventional perspectives.

    Many of the poems in this eighth collection by Carl Dennis involve an attempt to enter into dialogue with pagan and biblical perspectives, to throw light on ordinary experience through metaphor borrowed from religious myth and to translate religious myth into secular terms. While making no claims to put us in touch with some ultimate reality, these clear, precise, sensitive poems help us to pay homage to the everyday household gods that are easy to ignore, the gods that sustain life and make it rewarding.
    • WINNER
      Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
    © Mary Richert
    Carl Dennis is the author of fourteen books of poetry, most recently Earthborn (2022). A winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Ruth Lilly Prize, he taught for many years in the English Department of the State University of New York, and in the Warren Wilson Writing Program in North Carolina. He lives in Buffalo, New York View titles by Carl Dennis

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    Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

    A critically acclaimed literary treasure, Practical Gods is a captivating poetry collection that transcends conventional perspectives.

    Many of the poems in this eighth collection by Carl Dennis involve an attempt to enter into dialogue with pagan and biblical perspectives, to throw light on ordinary experience through metaphor borrowed from religious myth and to translate religious myth into secular terms. While making no claims to put us in touch with some ultimate reality, these clear, precise, sensitive poems help us to pay homage to the everyday household gods that are easy to ignore, the gods that sustain life and make it rewarding.

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    • WINNER
      Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

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    © Mary Richert
    Carl Dennis is the author of fourteen books of poetry, most recently Earthborn (2022). A winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Ruth Lilly Prize, he taught for many years in the English Department of the State University of New York, and in the Warren Wilson Writing Program in North Carolina. He lives in Buffalo, New York View titles by Carl Dennis

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