What the sky lacks

poems by Thom Caraway
Book - 2018

"What the Sky Lacks explores the negative capability of uncertainties and mysteries in a landscape of ruthless severity and elusive beauty, "a world built of unknown language." While witnessing the stark refuge of cottonwood shelterbelts on a field's ragged periphery, listening to the tender weight of empty freight cars rolling through the night, or recounting the dream of a wrecker wherein human warmth exists only in the transient sounds of strangers, a soul transforms into "an instrument of pure light, a circular machine of illumination." The spiritual discipline of recognizing beauty in a world of desolation emerges sheer, unadorned as the rugged territories in the northern badlands obliterated by merciless blizzards, unburnished yet dazzlingly beatific in wintry ruminations of a faith weathered out of wreckage." -- Amazon.com

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Caraway, Thomas Edward, 1973-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Spokane, WA : Korrektiv Press, [2018].
Edition:First edition.
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