David Yezzi

On Earth . . .

Arts & Literature

“Nettled by contingency and burnished by pain, Susan Delaney Spear’s poems are firmly, unmistakably terrestrial, though marked by an otherworldly hope—for mercy, redemption. A poet of faith, she understands that in some fundamental sense what happens here ‘on earth . . .’ (and the ellipsis is everything here) is ‘as it is in heaven.’ To this, and to her heartfelt verses, I say amen.”