Kimberly K. Williams

Heart Fiat

Arts & Literature

“Many poems in Heart Fiat are stunning, and together they create an illumination, utterly inspired by God. This collection’s beauty lies in its inherent purposes—to celebrate living and wonder about the relationship between poetry and the divine: “Petitions. Or, to ask: When does prayer become a poem, and a poem a prayer?” As these poems inquire and consider answers, readers encounter other voices—everyone from the Saints to Monet to the Serbian American poet Charles Simic. Heart Fiat employs multiple forms, some hybrid, and all with a contemporary bent. The combination leaves the reader awed at Kon’s facility to use form and language for the highest expression, forming a riot of Love.”