Geoffrey C. Howes

Authenticity

Arts & Literature

“Anita Hessenauer’s Authenticity is alternately prayerful, psalmic, and beseeching. . . . Rather than using metaphor to reveal spiritual abstractions, this poetry first explores the experience of transcendence, then proceeds to confront abstract Christian values with the beauty and suffering of Hessenauer’s own Indian heritage. The uplift that results is credible because it starts with sensitively described conditions on the ground.”