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Author Hopes, David B

Title A childhood in the Milky Way : becoming a poet in Ohio / David Brendan Hopes
Published Akron, Ohio : University of Akron Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 174 pages)
Series Ohio history and culture
Ohio history and culture.
Summary 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
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Subject Hopes, David B. -- Childhood and youth
Hopes, David B. -- Homes and haunts -- Ohio -- Akron
SUBJECT Hopes, David B. fast
Subject Poets, American -- Homes and haunts -- Ohio -- Akron
Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
POETRY -- American -- General.
Childhood and youth of a person
Homes
Intellectual life
Manners and customs
Poets, American
Poets, American -- Homes and haunts
SUBJECT Ohio -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Akron (Ohio) -- Social life and customs
Subject Ohio
Ohio -- Akron
Genre/Form collective biographies.
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781937378783
1937378780
9781937378349
1937378349