Nomi Stone

Radiant Obstacles

Arts & Literature

“In Luke Hankins’ Radiant Obstacles, hibiscus and hummingbirds, cardinals and pear trees, human beings (and their prayers and anguish) keep emerging from and returning to the vapor. These luminous poems meditate on the divine, on the gap between language and the object-world, on the mind and the body and each of their constraints and vast potentialities. Hankins has made ‘a house for an idea about beauty’—may we each visit its bewilderment, terror, and solace.”