Rue St. Jacques by Jim Hogan

In Rue St. Jacques Jim Hogan brings us a poetry of wit and intelligence, with the undergird of humor. Awake to image, awake to music, awake to irony. And yet for all that these poems maintain a certain classical distance, as relates to that which comes between the viewer and the viewed, they are inevitably generous, inexorably, even surprisingly, tender.

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These little gems of line and tone
Intense as crystal, whimsical as wind
Poignant as green, the very wisps
Of mad love, love on a string, over
Darker orange.

About the Author

James Hogan grew up in western Oklahoma where his grandparents were homesteaders. He attended Oklahoma A&M, graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and did his graduate study at Cornell. He taught Classics for thirty-seven years and now lives in Meadville Pennsylvania and Paris.He wishes to acknowledge his debt and gratitude to his wife Aurelia and his friends Elizabeth and Robert Murphy. These poems are dedicated to his children Maxwell and Ada.

He taught Classics for thirty-seven years and now lives in Meadville Pennsylvania and Paris.He wishes to acknowledge his debt and gratitude to his wife Aurelia and his friends Elizabeth and Robert Murphy. These poems are dedicated to his children Maxwell and Ada.