Dominique Hecq

The Thoughtful Muse

Arts & Literature

“Language, for William Franke, is an intensely material part of existence, and yet the abstract quality of words distorts the immediate quality of our contact with the world. In The Thoughtful Muse, this concern with what separates words from ‘the unknown and unfathomable’ propels him into philosophical and theological explorations of the spiritual. The collection offers numinous poems about truth learned with the mind but set free through the senses attuned to time, memory, nature, death, Eros, and the will to imagination.”