Matthew Olzmann

Radiant Obstacles

Arts & Literature

“Radiant Obstacles is a book alive with paradox and mystery. ‘I’ve made the mistake / of trying to grasp each strand / of the world’s complexity,’ Hankins writes, and the poetry he delivers stretches toward something eternally beyond reach. These are poems that long to hear the earth speak, while knowing that it won’t. They admire beauty, even as it dissipates and falls. They call out to the divine, and return to us having transformed metaphysical yearning into a deeply resonant art.”