Mercy's Madhouse: Poems - Softcover

Byers, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412020212 ISBN 13: 9781412020213

Publisher: Trafford Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

Byers' poems look into the face of facts, experience, and desire, but don't flinch. Continue, they say, continue to love, to hope, to seek, but know there is a price.

About this title

Synopsis:

One hallmark of a serious religious sensibility is its relationship with the profane world.The challenge for a poet is to make both aspects truly convincing. The poet aims for poems where spirit acknowledges the ripe miseries of the gambling flesh and the fleshsings of spirit's exacting grace. William Byers is such a poet. He knows the world with the eyes of the military man who has stared at nuclear apocalypse and crusted vomit on a bar top and he knows the world with the hungry soul of one who has craved a greater love. His poems are deeply moving as they unsparingly show how we fall and how we sometimes rise,how we stutter and how we find the words that are astonishingly apt. This book is full of many such words in many careful forms. William Byers is a very accomplished American poet. Baron Wormser

About this edition

• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1412020212
• ISBN 13: 9781412020213
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 90