Robert Hedin

No Reason

Arts & Literature

“Thanks to Jack Stewart and Cascade Books, here is a whole volume of finely crafted, fully realized poems steeped in the saving grace of the imagination. Throughout No Reason, Stewart breaks through the numbing, stultifying voice of our mass culture to uncover a deeper circuitry that links, as he writes, ‘one heart to another.’ In doing so, he reminds us again that poetry creates a sacred language, one whose intent is to change life not through embellishment but through consecration. No question, these are marvelous poems, an absolute joy to read.”