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Similar to Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, poems that compose the sections of Claude Wilkinson's Marvelous Light explore nature's cycles with respect to their parallels of, and import to, our human lives. Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione, or The Contest between Harmony and Invention, a title under which Vivaldi's work was first published, suggests part of an overarching theme that is implicit within Wilkinson's collection―that is to say, his poems strive for a balance of euphony and the revelation of artistic rigor. Epigraphs from 1 Peter 2:9 and Henry James's “The Middle Years” serve to enlighten readers as they read the poems that also image divinity's role in the creative process.

Claude Wilkinson is a graduate of the universities of Mississippi and Memphis respectively.  Over the years his poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Atlanta Review, The Oxford American, and The Southern Review.  His collection, Reading the Earth, won the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award. He has been selected for inclusion in Who's Who in the South and Southwest, Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World.  In addition to private collections, his work is also in the permanent collections of Cottonlandia Museum.