These Intricacies (Poiema Poetry Series) By Dave Harrity Kindle Edition 1498236944 9781498236942 These Intricacies (Poiema Poetry Series) These Intricacies is a book of poems traversing the intersection of family, fatherhood, and faith. Set in shifting, vibrant spaces of a rich Kentucky landscape, and wrought with metaphysical crisis, this collection charts the slow, seismic shifts of growth bound up in understanding the nature of home. Dangling between struggle and tranquility, the poems in These Intricacies evoke a contemplative exploration of masculinity and vocation as the poet and reader journey together to discover and dissolve the discontinuities of how we are loved and how we can love others. This collection of elemental Kentucky poems will land like starlight in your throat. You will want to sing Dave Harrity aloud to find that words have wombs, that what he calls the dusk in our bodies, our cairns of guilt, still birth and mark dim paths of light. These Intricacies will clear a way into your own and leave you grateful for each twist. Paul Willis, author of Say This Prayer into the Past Harrity invites us into the poems, but also into thought, quiet, and a contemplative solitude rare in our century. Here is a poet attentive to the worlds beyond and within us. Lynn Domina, author of Framed in Silence Intricate only begins to describe the delicate, strong, interlaced qualities of Harritys poems Each poem here is a complex weaving of poetic attention . into an honest, lamenting, desiring voice that embodies the human necessity to turn away the dark, / to call down light from stars. David Wright, author of The Small Books of Bach and A Liturgy for Stones Harrity metes out his keen sense of our material reality in These Intricacies with an undeniable spirit eye Im punctured by all thats hallowed and harsh in these poems. Whats Im thankful. Susanna Childress, author of Jagged with Love and Entering the House of Awe These Intricacies is a welcome new voice in American poetry for the muscle and soul and lyric vision it offers us The comfort and confidence I feel in Harritys lines reminds me of voices like Richard Hugo, James Wright, and John Anderson, with the Songs of David weaving throughout. Jeanie Thompson, author, The Myth of Poems from the Life of Helen Keller Dave Harrity travels the country teaching workshops on contemplative living, spiritual discipline, and poetry. He is the author of Making On Faith, Creativity, and the Kingdom at Hand (2013), a book of meditations and creative writing exercises for individual spiritual growth and communal formation. An Assistant Professor of English at Campbellsville University, he lives, teaches, and writes in Louisville with his wife and children.
I took a chance on this because the ebook was on major sale I m glad I did This is perhaps the best collection of poems I ve read in a while Harrity has poems about Kentucky poems about life poems about prayer and spirituality and poems about doubt and belief These poems are meaty enough and long enough that I should not quote them here but I especially appreciate the nine part Novena at the books center book ended by On Prayer 1 and On Prayer 2 Other poems of note include Trigger a poem about a man in a gun shop contemplating a gun purchase Hallelujah I m a Bum Atropos At Pleasant Hill to Visit Shakertown and the prose poem After Chuck s Zen Garden It is a strong collection but these are my favorites The title is taken from a line in George Oppen s poem Blood From a Stone These pages are full of allusions and references to mythology theology philosophy literature These are layered poems but not in a overt pretentious way Harrity s words touch real emotion particularly in relationship anxiety and struggles with faith And of course beautifully written Kindle Edition I first encountered Dave Harrity through Callid Keefe Perry s excellent Theopoetics primer Way to Water. So split our seedsand break the groundand call back lifewith sun enough to warm and startle us Kindle Edition Dave Harrity was on the What Should I Read Next podcast in February for poetry month I enjoyed listening to him talk about poetry and read some of his own writings These Intricacies is a book of poems journeying through family fatherhood and faith Kindle Edition
These Intricacies is a book of poems traversing the intersection of family fatherhood and faith Set in shifting vibrant spaces of a rich Kentucky landscape and wrought with metaphysical crisis this collection charts the slow seismic shifts of growth bound up in understanding the nature of home Dangling between struggle and tranquility the poems in These Intricacies evoke a contemplative exploration of masculinity and vocation as the poet and reader journey together to discover and dissolve the discontinuities of how we are loved and how we can love others This collection of elemental Kentucky poems will land like starlight in your throat You will want to sing Dave Harrity aloud to find that words have wombs that what he calls the dusk in our bodies our cairns of guilt still birth and mark dim paths of light These Intricacies will clear a way into your own and leave you grateful for each twist Paul Willis author of Say This Prayer into the Past Harrity invites us into the poems but also into thought quiet and a contemplative solitude rare in our century Here is a poet attentive to the worlds beyond and within us Lynn Domina author of Framed in Silence Intricate only begins to describe the delicate strong interlaced qualities of Harrity s poems Each poem here is a complex weaving of poetic attention into an honest lamenting desiring voice that embodies the human necessity to turn away the dark to call down light from stars David Wright author of The Small Books of Bach and A Liturgy for Stones Harrity metes out his keen sense of our material reality in These Intricacies with an undeniable spirit eye I m punctured by all that s hallowed and harsh in these poems What s I m thankful Susanna Childress author of Jagged with Love and Entering the House of Awe These Intricacies is a welcome new voice in American poetry for the muscle and soul and lyric vision it offers us The comfort and confidence I feel in Harrity s lines reminds me of voices like Richard Hugo James Wright and John Anderson with the Songs of David weaving throughout Jeanie Thompson author The Myth of Poems from the Life of Helen Keller Dave Harrity travels the country teaching workshops on contemplative living spiritual discipline and poetry He is the author of Making On Faith Creativity and the Kingdom at Hand 2013 a book of meditations and creative writing exercises for individual spiritual growth and communal formation An Assistant Professor of English at Campbellsville University he lives teaches and writes in Louisville with his wife and children These Intricacies Poiema Poetry Series.: Poems deeply rooted in the land in different moods with a devotional and inquiring spark