Saint World

by Joe Weil

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[Benjamin Myers · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is another great collection from Joe Weil, a poet I have read with delight for many years. The poems that at first may appear to be surrealist turn out to actually be visionary. Weil writes movingly about suffering and sanctity. His poems are fierce and tender and utterly authentic. In one poem, he says "I am spinning a cocoon from my confusions. / Who knows what will hatch?" I'd say what has hatched are some of the most humane and human poems I've read recently, something badly needed in a literary landscape that is increasingly aridly professionalized and predictable.