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Service: Poems
Poetry. July Open Reading Period selection. How do we see the things that show us the other things we are among? The poems of Grant Souders's first book are a conjuring. SERVICE is born in utterance, with an opening eye, with the bareness that is the root of being in the word is. There's an implication of narrative arc in the poet's semblance of creation myth, beginning in nakedness and ending in everything. Here is a book that finds itself by leaving this world and reaching for the cosmos, if only to look back.
"Souders risks that most dismissible of poetic sincerity... Such sincerity reveals itself as a terrain, a ground, a place of founding and so also a place of finding. It makes of Souders's poems something akin to 'a fire to look at / and look by.' The object of our meditation is also the object that gives us vision--the poem, these poems, which do not play for us a tune, but give us 'a tune we could play into.'"--Dan Beachy-Quick
"Souders risks that most dismissible of poetic sincerity... Such sincerity reveals itself as a terrain, a ground, a place of founding and so also a place of finding. It makes of Souders's poems something akin to 'a fire to look at / and look by.' The object of our meditation is also the object that gives us vision--the poem, these poems, which do not play for us a tune, but give us 'a tune we could play into.'"--Dan Beachy-Quick
- GenresPoetry
82 pages, Paperback
Published March 1, 2017
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