Brian Volck

Accumulated Lessons in Displacement

Arts & Literature

“Tautly written and closely observed, Rachel Hicks’s debut collection crackles with energy and insight. While taking the reader from the Chesapeake Bay to Southwestern China, the true movement in these meticulously rendered poems is ever inward, an interior journey bursting with bright sadness and bitter joy. This is a volume to revisit and savor.”

Befriending the North Wind

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Weaving insights from philosophy, theology, anthropology, developmental psychology, and pediatrics into a nuanced account of the moral agency of children, Robyn Boeré has authored a book of exceptional wisdom and sensitivity. In paying attention to what dying children actually say and do rather than forcing upon them the rickety bioethical principles of a society that fears death and worships autonomy, Boeré shows what children can teach adults about being interdependent creatures made in God's image. As a pediatrician and parent, I highly recommend Befriending the North Wind to anyone who cares about the moral and spiritual lives of children.”

Radiant Obstacles

Arts & Literature

“[Hankins] shuns the vacuous bourgeois abstractions that lately pass for 'spirituality' and recognizes the awful gulf between the word and the thing. Doubt, faith, language, and embodiment are of a piece for Hankins.”