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Cherubims
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639802357
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Dec 28 2022
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Clarke's themes of love and spiritual longing, set within the domestic realm of husbandhood and fatherhood, offer us a real philosophy of how language might connect us to those we love most. In this collection, he reveals himself to be a poet aware of the miraculous influence of the everyday light and world around us, as Wallace Stevens wrote. These poems are composed with ambition and wonder of the highest order: My intention is to match the hymns Sung by the seraphims (Holy, Holy, Holy.) Is it possible to achieve this? Clarke's efforts are the reader's reward.
-Anthony Caleshu, Professor of Poetry, University of Plymouth, and author of A Dynamic Exchange Between Us (2019)
If words indeed are living things, then they live intensely in these poems which might best be read as thin places where the divisions between earth and heaven, the sacred and the secular, are almost transparent. Most of them are rooted in the life of the family, in the poet's relationships with his wife, two sons and parents, in the chaos and vitality of cherubims at home, in school assemblies, nativity plays, Halloween. They are also founded upon the Bible and Christian liturgy, with subtly hidden learning from Angelus Silesius to Orpheus. These poems are precious ventures into the holy in our midst, carefully crafted expressions of love and faith.
-David Jasper, Emeritus Professor, University of Glasgow, and author of Heaven in Ordinary (2018)
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