Into the Sun: Poems Revised, Rearranged, and New - Softcover

Douglas, Colin B

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1434104192 ISBN 13: 9781434104199

Publisher: Waking Lion Press, 2019

Synopsis

Into the Sun is a magnificent collection of Colin Douglas's poetry, a curious, enlightening, and disturbing blend of striking imagery, intense spirituality, and subtle eroticism. Dennis Clark, in a review for the Association for Mormon Letters, called Douglas "a man too long in the shadows," "a remarkable poet" whose work proceeds "with all the clarity, logic, and irrationality of a dream." Clark explains, "The elements of the dream form a coherent whole without relying on either him or us to know a system of interpretation. That is one of the things that overwhelms me as a reader. The poems do not mean, but be—a state that allows me to inhabit them . . . , trying to find the key to that unknown language." Colin Douglas writes, "Poems of this kind can be merest glimpses through a window on the infinite and eternal and marvelous and rationally, literally unspeakable mystery of being; . . . of the erotic and convulsively beautiful ecstasy of Eternal Life and Creation."

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Review

"Utilizing traditional Latter-day Saint language, Colin Douglas breaks on thru to an authentic spirituality that knows no sect or dogma. Each poem in this collection offers a glimpse of Colin's search for his own soul-voice. And through it all, he never fails to share his illuminations with the reader."

--Alex Caldiero,
Sonosopher & polyartist
Sr. Artist in Residence at UVU

"Into the Sun has a little bit of everything: pastoral, psalms, prose poems, lamentations, surrealist parables, canticles to the beloved, etc. Colin Douglas is a seeker: one who follows the thread wherever it leads him, sometimes to deliverance, sometimes deeper into the labyrinth. Above all else, this book will keep you on your toes!"

--Lance Larsen,
Poet laureate of Utah (2012-2017)
Author of What the Body Knows

Edition details

• Publisher: Waking Lion Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1434104192
• ISBN 13: 9781434104199
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 292