Boris Dralyuk

Ancient Salt

Arts & Literature

“Be they innovators or traditionalists, people of faith or of profound doubt, the poets whose works and worldviews Andrew Frisardi carefully unpacks in his Ancient Salt share a quality that also characterizes his own approach—a moral seriousness that is at once bracing and reassuring. Frisardi’s clear-sighted, illuminating collection amounts to more than the sum of its parts. Together, the essays present an original vision of the modern poet’s mission, which is a search not simply for novelty, but for an art that might, as Frisardi writes in his essay on Ungaretti, resurrect a world of primordial purity by novel means.”

To Heaven's Rim

Arts & Literature

“In his learned anthology of Christian poetry, Burl Horniachek takes us from the early fourth century to the end of the eighteenth, from Syria and Ethiopia to China and Mexico, embracing an exhilarating variety of poetic modes while insisting upon the highest standards of the translator’s art. What we witness throughout the book is not the spread of a doctrine, but the emergence of individual voices and visions, and, in some cases, of entire national literary traditions, enkindled by devotion.”