Jacob Riyeff

The Hay and the Barn

Arts & Literature

“In a transtemporal collaboration in the communion of saints, David Craig makes the words of modern mystic Gabrielle Bossis a lamp for the way through a year of poems. Craig’s verses ring with his characteristic turning to Christ in all situations amid a recounting of every-telling—and just-often-enough-outlandish—details of everyday life. His regular nod to suffering and bodily death grounds these poems in extra heft, but a heft balanced by a poet’s gratitude for life’s greatest gifts: the sacraments, devoted relationships, leaves and breezes, the chance to glimpse the trinity’s glory in the smallness of it all.”