Kristin Brace

The New Book

Arts & Literature

“Jonathan Bratt Carle’s poems are ‘poised on the needlepoint of breath,’ stitching the silent spaces between humanity and divinity, origin and ending. Sought in deep quiet, the poems in this collection move past easy certainty to embrace mystery and paradox, grappling with darkness and, ultimately, inviting in the light. Threading through them all is the apt declaration in the title poem: ‘It will be a book of yearning.’”