[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"doc-seo-417733-105":3,"detail-sidebar-cat-0-en-105":81,"doc-detail-417733-en":130},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":6},0,"ok",{"site_id":7,"language":8,"slug":9,"title":10,"keywords":11,"description":12,"schema_data":13,"social_meta":74,"head_meta":76,"extra_data":78,"updated_unix":80},105,"en","beauty-like-a-rope-poems","Beauty Like A Rope - Poems","","A poetry collection by Leslie St. John examining the body as both vehicle and obstacle, and the metaphysical idea that renaming body parts may approach what is unnamable. Opening poems are framed by an advance praise that highlights contemporary, precise, warm language and an intimate music when read aloud. Special focus is given to the sequence “Elegy for John Mark, 2002-2004,” and to the collection’s recurring image of beauty as a rope that can rescue or kill, followed by curated contents.",{"@graph":14,"@context":73},[15,34,56],{"@type":16,"itemListElement":17},"BreadcrumbList",[18,23,27,31],{"item":19,"name":20,"@type":21,"position":22},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",1,{"item":24,"name":25,"@type":21,"position":26},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/","Document",2,{"item":28,"name":29,"@type":21,"position":30},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/literature/","Literature",3,{"item":32,"name":10,"@type":21,"position":33},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/beauty-like-a-rope-poems/417733/",4,{"url":32,"name":10,"@type":35,"image":36,"author":41,"headline":10,"publisher":44,"fileFormat":47,"inLanguage":8,"description":12,"dateModified":48,"datePublished":49,"encodingFormat":47,"isAccessibleForFree":50,"interactionStatistic":51},"DigitalDocument",{"url":37,"@type":38,"width":39,"height":40},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/beauty-like-a-rope-poems/417733.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":42,"@type":43},"Jasmine","Person",{"url":19,"name":45,"@type":46},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-10-22","2026-09-28",true,{"@type":52,"interactionType":53,"userInteractionCount":55},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":54},"ViewAction",7,{"@type":57,"mainEntity":58},"FAQPage",[59,65,69],{"name":60,"@type":61,"acceptedAnswer":62},"What central idea does the collection connect to the body?","Question",{"text":63,"@type":64},"It treats the body as hostage to an idea while also grounding the poems in the physical reality of the body, as both a vehicle and an obstacle.","Answer",{"name":66,"@type":61,"acceptedAnswer":67},"Which poem sequence is highlighted as especially moving?",{"text":68,"@type":64},"“Elegy for John Mark, 2002-2004” is singled out as a heartbreaking sequence about the death of a nephew that turns toward an unearthly lyrical beauty.",{"name":70,"@type":61,"acceptedAnswer":71},"What do readers learn about the collection’s view of beauty?",{"text":72,"@type":64},"Beauty is described through the image of a rope—something that can rescue or kill—so beauty carries both salvation and danger in the poems’ world.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":32,"og:type":75,"og:title":10,"og:site_name":45,"og:description":12},"article",{"robots":77,"canonical":32},"index,follow",{"doc_id":79,"site_id":7},417733,1791586189,{"code":4,"msg":82,"data":83},"success",[84,88,91,95,100,105,109,114,119,122,126],{"id":22,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":85,"show_sort_weight":86,"slug":87},"Story & Novel",90,"story-novel",{"id":26,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":29,"show_sort_weight":89,"slug":90},80,"literature",{"id":33,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":92,"show_sort_weight":93,"slug":94},"Exam",70,"exam",{"id":96,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":97,"show_sort_weight":98,"slug":99},5,"Comic",60,"comic",{"id":101,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":102,"show_sort_weight":103,"slug":104},6,"Technology",50,"technology",{"id":55,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":106,"show_sort_weight":107,"slug":108},"Healthcare",40,"healthcare",{"id":110,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":111,"show_sort_weight":112,"slug":113},8,"Research & Report",30,"research-report",{"id":115,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":116,"show_sort_weight":117,"slug":118},9,"Religion & Spirituality",20,"religion-spirituality",{"id":117,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":120,"show_sort_weight":117,"slug":121},"World Cup","world-cup",{"id":123,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":124,"show_sort_weight":123,"slug":125},10,"Lifestyle","lifestyle",{"id":127,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":128,"show_sort_weight":96,"slug":129},19,"General","general",{"code":4,"msg":82,"data":131},{"doc_id":79,"user_id":132,"nickname":42,"user_avatar":133,"doc_module":4,"category_id":26,"category_name":29,"doc_title":10,"doc_description":12,"doc_content":134,"file_id":135,"file_url":136,"file_type":137,"file_size":138,"view_count":55,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":22,"is_downloadable":22,"audit_status":22,"page_count":139,"language":140,"language_code":8,"site_id":7,"html_lang":8,"table_of_contents":141,"faqs":142,"seo_title":143,"seo_description":12,"update_tm":144,"read_time":145},2336478487870,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_085a072bc5b1113ac321206ff7593b45","# Beauty Like A Rope\n\nPoems by Leslie St.John  \nDigitized by the Internet Archivein 2022 with funding fromKahle/Austin Foundation  \nhttps://archive.org/details/beautylikerope0000stjo  \nBeauty Like A Rope  \n# Advance Praise for Beauty Like A Rope\n\n\"My body has been hostage to an idea,\"cries Leslie St.John,and even though this charismatic woman never losestouch with the physical fact of the body in the world,sheis at her essence a metaphysical poet.\"I'd like to renameevery body part,\"she insists in the first poem here,inthe hope that doing so may bring her \"one day nearerto what is unnamable.\"It's a brave imagination that canface the body it lives in as both vehicle and obstacle,anda strong mind that can transcend that dualism.But havinglost one eye in an absurd accident(\"She Washed MyHair\"tells the harrowing story),Leslie St.John has letthe poet in her see with a unique third eye,one that seeswith an accurate,compassionate,wisdom-inviting gaze.Her language is contemporary,precise and warm withbreathing;her poems offer a music that sounds intimateeven when one read aloud alone.Of special note is theheartbreaking \"Elegy for John Mark,2002-2004,\"asequence on the death of a nephew that turns at the endtoward an unearthly lyrical beauty.But in Leslie St.John'sworld,beauty is like a rope:it can rescue or kill.  \n～Jim Cushing  \nLeslie St.John's poem,\"Things that Bend,\"arrested me,made me eager to keep reading (Is that not part of thewriter's obligation to the reader?)the poem from its firstline,in which there is a lot of strong but subtle music:inch/window/sill are assonantal half-rhymes,curl/wormhalf rhyme,and worm/window add a little consonantalrhyme.By the fourth line,after establishing a place,shetakes us to another place,the past,I believe,and an otherenters the poem.It's a love poem,a poem about time andits damage,I loved the lines,  \nWhat bends short,bends long—Doesn't break.Neck of tulip,waningClothes rod.And,yes,the rules  \nThat the heart \"splinters into tributaries\"is an originalway of saying something all of us come to learn if we livea conscious life.  \n～Thomas Lux  \n# Beauty Like A Rope\n\nPoems byLeslie Ann St.John  \nFirst edition,May 20I2  \nCopyright C20I2Word Palace Presswordpalacepress.comwordpalacepress@aol.com  \nWord Palace PressP.O.Box s83San Luis Obispo,CA93406  \nBOOK AND COVER DESIGN BYBen Lawless,Penciled In Designpenciledin.com  \n098s026049  \nISBN:  \nISBN-I3:  \n978-0-9850260-4-2  \nContents  \nI  \n3 Filling the Egg Carton  \n4 A Dream of Doors  \n6 Winter Jars  \nI2Reading Monet's Garden  \nI4Things that Bend  \nII  \nI7Elegy for John Mark,2002-2004  \nI  \n25 The Bicyclist  \n27 She Washed My Hair  \n30 Eye Cleaning  \n32 Returning to the Arts Center  \n34 On Wanting to Speak of More than the Seasons  \n36 The Weight of Stories  \n37 Spring Fest Woodcarving  \n40 About Leslie St.John","cbCaip5332mt9tL7","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaip5332mt9tL7","pdf",1780361,56,"English","# Advance Praise for Beauty Like A Rope\n# Beauty Like A Rope\n## Contents\n## Poems by Leslie St.John\n## Poems\n### Filling the Egg Carton\n### A Dream of Doors\n### Winter Jars\n### Reading Monet's Garden\n### Things that Bend\n### Elegy for John Mark, 2002-2004\n### The Bicyclist\n### She Washed My Hair\n### Eye Cleaning\n### Returning to the Arts Center\n### On Wanting to Speak of More than the Seasons\n### The Weight of Stories\n### Spring Fest Woodcarving\n### About Leslie St.John","[{\"question\":\"What central idea does the collection connect to the body?\",\"answer\":\"It treats the body as hostage to an idea while also grounding the poems in the physical reality of the body, as both a vehicle and an obstacle.\"},{\"question\":\"Which poem sequence is highlighted as especially moving?\",\"answer\":\"“Elegy for John Mark, 2002-2004” is singled out as a heartbreaking sequence about the death of a nephew that turns toward an unearthly lyrical beauty.\"},{\"question\":\"What do readers learn about the collection’s view of beauty?\",\"answer\":\"Beauty is described through the image of a rope—something that can rescue or kill—so beauty carries both salvation and danger in the poems’ world.\"}]","Beauty Like A Rope - Poems | PDF",1790610315,86]