by William Orem
Michigan State University Press, 2018
Paper: 978-1-61186-290-4 | eISBN: 978-1-62896-337-3
Library of Congress Classification PS3565.R388O97 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.6

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In this debut poetry collection by an award-winning fiction writer, the longing for God and the poignancy of family life echo each other’s music. The traditional forms of sonnet, sestina, and villanelle punctuate more modern verse forms, this combination being only one of the strands binding past and present. Many of these poems may be read as confessions—of joy, of hurtfulness given or received, of awe at the inescapable reality of love. This volume comprises spiritual writing that remains firmly of this world, part apostasy, part song, reaching out for meaning from both the shifting landscape of Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay and the interior places of the heart.
 

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