By John Wood
The 4 elements of this hugely finished assortment exhibit different elements and large breadth of John Wood's poetic expertise. Displayed listed below are his skill to maintain a series, his adeptness with lyricism and the quick shape, and his sensuous feeling for this lifestyles and the lifetime of the previous. In regard to the latter, wooden starts off the booklet together with his poetic account of the fantastic lifestyles and adventures of the energetic American utopianist Wilhelm Johannes Hoade. Wood's account reads like a singular as he weaves a fictional narrative out of lyric poetry, a story that's eventually convincing and actual inspite of its noticeable impossibility. the second one part, "Homage to Dafydd ap Gwilym," is a unfastened yet artistically devoted translation after the various medieval Welsh poet's significant poems, prepared in the way to recommend in a natural/supernatural mode his striking personality and biography. The 3rd half is a gaggle of finely tuned, in general lyric poems facing kin, pals, and highbrow issues; the fourth is a bunch of up to date and old "revelations," relatively impressive in scope and diversity. All mix to shape a stunning complete.
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Mutti, Mutti, he must have said a hundred times. I thought there would be Words, a final message, something to set down or for the masons to cut, a testament. And Sister Alma raised his head, and he took a sip and said, The core of the apple is bitter. Gibberish, I thought, but took it down. And then he said, Oh, it is so rich the room cannot hold it. And he breathed in deeply, and there was nothing more, and he was gone. Page 27 Waiting for Jesus They waited from New Year's to Year's End as expectation and disappointment rose to fill each day, rose like the ripe sweet stench of silage that hovered over the farm all summer.
Revelations Angelic Revelation 71 Gifts 73 Sacred Celebrations for the Moon's Beginning: Five Menarcheal Songs with Epigraphs from St. Simeon 75 Withdrawal and Return 80 The Honey of Hellas 82 85 Page ix Acknowledgments Grateful acknowledgment is made to the editors of Cultural Vistas, Poetry, and the Southern Review, where some of these poems first appeared, and especially to the editor of the New Orleans Review, who was kind enough to publish the title poem in its entirety. Page 1 I The Gates of the Elect Kingdom FOR PAUL GÉRÔME Bless the man who can restore the spirit.
W. J. Hoade of the Kingdom Farm community turned himself in to authorities last Tuesday night in regard to the death of Sean Cook, a baker, of Manhattan. " Manhattan Weekly Traveler, February 8, 1852 The hogs and hounds of a rotting god could not drive me from Christ's own land, and they've eaten my galled rebuke and tasted Christ's command. Under His iron sandaled fury I've broken the breastbone of sin. And though torn for such blessing, we are risen and radiant; torn in the flaming trial we have risen from the furnace whole, weighed but not wanting in the days that draw the stations of our blessing.