Again with the Light
Poems
- Arts & Literature
- Publisher: Resource Publications (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2020
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Publisher's Description
With poems composed over five decades, but predominantly for his 2016 Ashland University MFA thesis of the same title, Again with the Light is a collection drawn from an entire life. It comes, first, from a childhood on the autistic spectrum, improperly diagnosed, in which a fascination with forests, trees, birds, water, and rough pathways of the literal and metaphorical kind provide a landscape of imagery for the whole. Increasingly, an attraction toward Christ leads through numerous permutations of faith and various Christian communities to Eastern Orthodoxy, an earthy, unearthly place with a connection to kenosis and theosis. Along the way come lives of saints and prosodic experiments in a postmodern but reachable style.
Endorsements (1)
“Like in the book of Genesis, these poems offer the experience of God continuing to call forth the light. In the lyricism of these poems, the Lord is still hovering over his creations so that we can celebrate the trees, sky, water, and all living things including ourselves. The result is a journey into the light of the natural world, which is as blessed in this moment as it was when first made.”
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