Kathryn Simmonds

This Transfigured Chapel of the Threads

Arts & Literature

“‘Here in my cell I am newly conceived,’ writes Sarah Law in this astonishing and absorbing meditation on the life of a beloved saint. Each poem offers a new insight on Thérèse’s experience, and the whole book is studded with bright imagery. Law is a writer of great imaginative empathy, which she balances with formal control—her brief, graceful poems land lightly as snowflakes. These poems invite a response of both heart and mind, and reading them is a remarkable pleasure.”