Runt Heaven
Runt Heaven, even when addressing discord and suffering in the physical world, invites rare glimpses into the presence of an “effervescent spirit world” through the prism of poetry. In this diverse and rich collection of thirty-three poems, the unseen world is so intimately connected with the seen world that, at times, they merge, often in depictions of nature or in whimsical linguistic gymnastics.
Themes run the gamut from writing, uncertainty, broken dreams, silence, troubled sleep, and illuminated grief to ancient Greek scandals, river walks, poetry, young love, ancestral knowledge, love and loss, soldiers’ memories, reciprocity with the natural world, curiosity about the future, and creative fertility—all powered by wonder. To fall under the spell of these verses is to bridge the distance between here and there, past and present, and ultimately, the physical world and the ethereal world, where poets divine their poems.
Runt Heaven, even when addressing discord and suffering in the physical world, invites rare glimpses into the presence of an “effervescent spirit world” through the prism of poetry. In this diverse and rich collection of thirty-three poems, the unseen world is so intimately connected with the seen world that, at times, they merge, often in depictions of nature or in whimsical linguistic gymnastics.
Themes run the gamut from writing, uncertainty, broken dreams, silence, troubled sleep, and illuminated grief to ancient Greek scandals, river walks, poetry, young love, ancestral knowledge, love and loss, soldiers’ memories, reciprocity with the natural world, curiosity about the future, and creative fertility—all powered by wonder. To fall under the spell of these verses is to bridge the distance between here and there, past and present, and ultimately, the physical world and the ethereal world, where poets divine their poems.
Runt Heaven, even when addressing discord and suffering in the physical world, invites rare glimpses into the presence of an “effervescent spirit world” through the prism of poetry. In this diverse and rich collection of thirty-three poems, the unseen world is so intimately connected with the seen world that, at times, they merge, often in depictions of nature or in whimsical linguistic gymnastics.
Themes run the gamut from writing, uncertainty, broken dreams, silence, troubled sleep, and illuminated grief to ancient Greek scandals, river walks, poetry, young love, ancestral knowledge, love and loss, soldiers’ memories, reciprocity with the natural world, curiosity about the future, and creative fertility—all powered by wonder. To fall under the spell of these verses is to bridge the distance between here and there, past and present, and ultimately, the physical world and the ethereal world, where poets divine their poems.