Let’s Call It Home
Poems
- Arts & Literature
- Publisher: Cascade Books (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2024
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Publisher's Description
Let's Call It Home is a slow search for wholeness in the fragmented landscape of language, place, family, and faith. These poems offer themselves as touchstones on the dizzying pilgrimage of ascent and descent towards rooted ground, that place we both hail from and are forever approaching, the home we both know intimately and perennially hunger for. And here, on this road, if the conclusions are provisional and the destination--as seen from this end of things--shifting, the hope compelling us out the door is as certain as the ache that sings us homeward and the unshakable sense of a steadying hand at our backs.
Endorsements (3)
“Let’s Call It Home is a deft, delicate, carefully assembled collection of poems, each giving a focus and an insight of its own, but altogether intended to take you on a slow journey, an ascent and descent, a venturing out and a return. Time and again these poems do what poetry does best: they transfigure the familiar and so reveal something of its meaning: from the child crawling inch by inch towards a patch of light on the floor to the man holding the body of God inexplicably in his hand.”
“Luke Harvey’s poetry is the book of his own life, in which he observes himself writing. A master of guileful word play, Harvey’s poetic skill with the way words on the page play against each other make this riveting reading. These are poems vivid with details of family dynamics. His gentle but pointed observations come across as prismatic as life itself, his verbiage dense, rich, and spare in defining the earthbound edges of life.”
“Luke Harvey’s poetry reminds me of my younger and more compassionate self. His work is more cannily colloquial, more expansively gracious than my own. These are actual poems, shaped by a truly faithful heart and mind in search of truth. May it be blessed.”
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