Of Angels: Poems & Translations - Hardcover

Swist, Wally

9798899906886: Of Angels: Poems & Translations

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ISBN 13: 9798899906886

Verlag: Finishing Line Press, 2026

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Angels used to appear in literary works with at least moderate frequency. However, in our modern, often immoderately jaded society, angels aren't considered at all. In a sublime presentation, and a balance of original work and translations carefully considered by the author, Of Angels is evidence that these heavenly creatures, who are not born and do not die, exist. However, different from UFOs, angels are of both the real stuff and divine nature. Leonard Cohen wrote: "When we don't pray to the angels/ the angels don't pray for us." Perhaps just reading these poems at least resemble acts of prayer. Certainly they are ritualized devotions that exhort the divine in real ways in which the everyday offers an opportunity to find the numinous in the commonplace, and before we realize that we might chance to see one, "they disappear, and in our astonishment, / in as much as when they appear, / they vanish, and instill within us their/ magnitude."

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Author of more than forty collections of poetry and prose, Wally Swist's new books include Aperture (Kelsay Books), poems regarding caregiving his spouse through Alzheimer's, and If You're the Dreamer, I'm the Dream: Selected Translations from Rilke's Book of Hours (Finishing Line Press). Poems, essays, and translations have appeared in Anomaly, Chicago Quarterly Review, Commonweal, Healing Muse, Image Journal, Montreal Review, North American Review, Pensive, Poetry London, Rattle, and Your Impossible Voice. Huang Po and the Dimensions of Love (Southern Illinois University Press, 2012) was selected by Yuseff Komunyakaa as co-winner of the 2011 Crab Orchard Open Poetry Competition. He was also the winner of the Ex Ophidia Press Poetry Prize in 2018 for A Bird Who Seems to Know Me. Readings of Swist's poems are archived on Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac and NPR. Books of nonfiction include Singing for Nothing: Selected Nonfiction as Literary Memoir (Brooklyn, NY: The Operating System, 2018) and On Beauty: Essays, Reviews, Fiction, and Plays (New York & Lisbon: Adelaide Books, 2018). Wild Rose Bush: The Life of Mary and Other Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke was selected as an honorable mention in the 2025 Stephen Mitchell Prize for Excellence in Translation sponsored by Green Linden Press. Bainbridge Island Press published his most recent collection of his poetry, Discovering What to Say (2025).

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