With an unwavering ascendancy of the austere, Thom Caraway's What the Sky Lacks explores the negative capability of uncertainties and mysteries in a landscape of ruthless severity and elusive beauty, "a world built of unknown language." While witnessing the stark refuge of cottonwood shelterbelts on a field's ragged periphery, listening to the tender weight of empty freight cars rolling through the night, or recounting the dream of a wrecker wherein human warmth exists only in the transient sounds of strangers, a soul transforms into "an instrument of pure light, a circular machine of illumination." The spiritual discipline of recognizing beauty in a world of desolation emerges sheer, unadorned as the rugged territories in the northern badlands obliterated by merciless blizzards, unburnished yet dazzlingly beatific in wintry ruminations of a faith weathered out of wreckage. Instead of hungering for uneasy solace, this enduring poet vows, "We'll rename the world." (Karen An-hwei Lee)
- | Author: Thomas Edward Caraway
- | Publisher: Korrektiv Press
- | Publication Date: Dec 27, 2018
- | Number of Pages: 83 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback/Poetry
- | ISBN-10: 0983151350
- | ISBN-13: 9780983151357
- Author:
- Thomas Edward Caraway
- Publisher:
- Korrektiv Press
- Publication Date:
- Dec 27, 2018
- Number of pages:
- 83 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback/Poetry
- ISBN-10:
- 0983151350
- ISBN-13:
- 9780983151357