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An Altar of Light
Paperback
Series: West Kentucky Heritage
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ISBN13: 9798251738056
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 28 2026
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 28 2026
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
An Altar of Light is a place-based poetry collection rooted in the rural Midwest, shaped by land, labor, weather, and the rhythms of agricultural life. Moving through seasons of growth, drought, storm, and winter, these poems attend closely to moments where beauty, loss, and responsibility quietly converge. The collection culminates in a sequence of poems centered on Roy Morris, a Kentucky sharecropper whose lived wisdom embodies the book's deepest concerns. Written with restraint and clarity, these poems find spiritual weight in ordinary work, careful attention, and the patient acceptance of limits. Some readers may notice affinities with the agrarian literary tradition of Kentucky, particularly the attentive, place-rooted writing associated with fellow Kentuckian Wendell Berry.
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