Tongues of Fire
Tongues of Fire A remarkable first collection by an important new poetIn this collection, Se n Hewitt gives us poems of a rare musicality and grace. Drawing on the religious, the sacred and the…
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Tongues of Fire
A remarkable first collection by an important new poetIn this collection, Se n Hewitt gives us poems of a rare musicality and grace. Drawing on the religious, the sacred and the profane, this is a collection in which men meet in the woods, where matter is corrupted and remade. By turns searing and meditative, these are lyrics concerned with the matter of the world, its physicality, but also attuned to the proximity of each moment, each thing, to the spiritual.Here, there is sex, grief, and loss, but also a committed dedication to life, hope and renewal.
The collection ends with a series of elegies for the poet's father: There are prayers, hymns, vespers, incantations, and longer poems which attempt to propel themselves towards the transcendent.In this book, there is always the sense of fragility allied with strength, a violence harnessed and unleashed.