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Altar
The poems in George Eklund’s ALTAR avoid screaming and distance themselves completely from the sense of righteousness which passes now for poetry. They work quietly presenting significant details of an often hidden inner life. I enjoy the slow and careful clarity. Their charm is mysterious and long lasting.
John McKernan
George Eklund’s poems move from the individual to the cosmos, the speaker to the sky and back, the speaker to the core of living things, and back, with grace and conviction. The path between the self and the core in the poems is familiar to us because we have daily lives and the speaker in the poems fashions his portraits of the sky, the people, the nucleus, from the things of daily life. In Eklund’s poems the palpability of the immediate life of the speaker has its equal in the palpability of various kinds of organic matter and the palpability of the stars.
Arthur Vogelsang
John McKernan
George Eklund’s poems move from the individual to the cosmos, the speaker to the sky and back, the speaker to the core of living things, and back, with grace and conviction. The path between the self and the core in the poems is familiar to us because we have daily lives and the speaker in the poems fashions his portraits of the sky, the people, the nucleus, from the things of daily life. In Eklund’s poems the palpability of the immediate life of the speaker has its equal in the palpability of various kinds of organic matter and the palpability of the stars.
Arthur Vogelsang
- GenresPoetry
44 pages, Paperback
First published September 20, 2019
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