Celebrated by the poets Andrew Hudgins and Ryan Wilson, this anthology of personalist or contemplative realist poetry includes over a dozen of the most accomplished poetic craftsmen working in their chosen forms, including the acclaimed poets Malcolm Guite, Joseph Massey, and Catharine Savage Brosman, and the deft stylists, James Matthew Wilson, Marly Youmans, Joshua Hren, and Sarah Collister. These poets pull back the naturalistic veil obscuring the true Spirit-filled life of the world. Here, readers can enjoy poems that see the fullness of reality, contemplating the storm clouds and radiance of experience, as in Thomas’s hermitage, Collister’s subway, Sheehan’s back porch, McKee’s seaside, or Hren’s ghost haunted city. Answering deep longings and intuitions, these personalist poems will move many readers to wonder in the ordinary and transcend the benality of nihilism.
