Michael Centore

Mother Mourning

Arts & Literature

“John Zedolik’s latest collection is a study in how to process grief through language. His cycle of poems juxtaposes images of the solidity of the earth against the weightlessness of one who ‘has left this coil / and will not return.’ In reaching across this distance, forging communion with a subject ‘translated to silence, / the language that lacks / all tongue,’ he opens the way to a grace of remembrance and renewal.”

When the Spirit Moves Me

Arts & Literature

“John Zedolik is blessed to detect the sacred in seemingly incongruous places, from the glint of a fishhook to the shape of a honeysuckle branch in winter. His poems reconfigure these moments of religious experience into a language of subtle music and syntactical daring. Reading him attunes the mind to a deeper spiritual awareness.”