Pico Iyer

The Farther Away

Arts & Literature

“Roger Wagner’s paintings have the visionary power of Blake, carrying us up to the heavens; his poems have the clean and perfect calm of Herbert, able to find radiance even amidst the clutter and confusion of the world. Here, as always, he takes us up to where the angels live and deep into the quiet recesses of the heart and shows us that they’re the same. Wherever we are is illuminated.”