Divine Fire: Poems, Paperback - David Woo
How to find wisdom and spiritual sustenance in a time of crisis and uncertainty? The perspective soon widens from the intimacies of love to issues of national and global import, such as race and class inequality, and then to an unspoken cataclysm that is, by turns, a spiritual apocalypse and a crisis that could be in the news today, like climate change or the pandemic. In Divine Fire, David Woo answers with poems that move from private life into a wider world of catastrophe and renewal.In the last part of the book, the search for ever-vaster scales of meaning, both sacred and profane, finds the poet trying on different personas and sensibilities--comic, ironic, earnest, literary, self-mythologizing-- before reaching a luminous d tente with the fearful and the sublime.