The Lovely Sight of Ithaca
A Modest Volume of Poetry in Traditional Forms
- Arts & Literature
- Publisher: Resource Publications (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2022
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Publisher's Description
Exploring the see-saw tension between frustration and faith, between the paralysis of despondency and the vitality of hope, between the inevitability of dread and the surges of joy, The Lovely Sight of Ithaca strives to document the travail in attempting to walk the "steep and narrow path" of a spiritual life. Though interspersed with occasional light verse, the poems of this volume speak heavily on love, loneliness, longing, despair, insanity, Divinity, serenity, and triumph. Written in traditional forms of versification--stanza, meter, rhyme--the attempt is made to rediscover and redeploy the heritage which centuries of English-language poets have drawn from to craft their art. The Lovely Sight of Ithaca details a soul's journey--despite being delayed, blown off course, and faced with numerous obstacles--to find the way to his ultimate Home.
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“Michael Williams’ muse teeters on the brink of the abyss, veering between all too rare ecstasies of bliss and the blistered extremities of recurring dejection. His consummately skillful pen masters form in the war with formlessness, extracting sense from senselessness like living blood from cold-hardened stone. From out of these depths, the sense of being cursed by life is checked by the kiss of beauty which is God’s presence in the darkest night of the soul.”
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