East Rock by Paul Stroble

$22.99

 

East Rock continues Paul Stroble‘s rich journey into our and his history, spirit, faith lives, and travels.  The journey(s) he takes us on are interior and exterior and engage the natural world and that of our hearts. His erudition serves but does not occlude his poetry; he’s more learned that Eliot and a lot more fun, too. His poetry is full of sentiment and free of sentimentality.  I treasure all my poetry volumes by Paul Stroble, and it will bring joy to add this one to the shelf.

–Tom Dukes, Professor emeritus, University of Akron

 

Out of a smelter of histories—natural, Biblical, American, geologic, personal—Paul Stroble forges a testament to the things life gives and the things life takes away, and how we’re here to celebrate and mourn, to hurt and forgive, to fear and love, to live and to die, the best we can, “our lives in need of grace.” The name we give to this unstinting, capacious, and utterly generous moral vision is art.

–Murray Farish, author of Inappropriate Behavior

 

 

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East Rock

by Paul Stroble

Full-length, Paper

List: $22.99

979-8-88838-656-9

2024

Inspired by a painting that conflates New England and the American Southwest, Paul Stroble has written a poem that melds his years in Connecticut and Arizona. He acknowledges the history and presence of Native American tribes in the lands that he himself has loved. As a descendant of the Mayflower pilgrims, Stroble uses biblical, geological, historical, and personal resources on a pilgrimage of family and identity via his American forbears.

Paul Stroble teaches philosophy and religious studies at Webster University in St. Louis and is also adjunct faculty at Eden Theological Seminary. A grantee of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Louisville Institute, he has written several books, primarily church related, and numerous articles, essays, and curricular materials. His previous chapbooks with Finishing Line Press are Dreaming at the Electric Hobo (2015), Little River (2017), Small Corner of the Stars (2017), Backyard Darwin (2019), and Galápagos Joy (2023), as well as the full-length Walking Lorton Bluff (2020) and Four Mile (2022).

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