D.S. Martin is Series Editor for the new Poiema Poetry Series from Wipf & Stock.
Our first book in the series is Six Sundays Toward a Seventh by Sydney Lea. (Publication date:01/01/2012)
Sydney Lea is the author of ten collections of poetry, including Pursuit Of A Wound (2001) which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Lea is the founding editor of New England Review, where he served from 1977 until 1989. He is the new poet laureate of Vermont.
To purchase Six Sundays Toward a Seventh visit: Wipf & Stock.
“These poems—selected from the award-winning poet’s output over four decades—more explicitly than any of his prior volumes address the centrality of Christian vision to his aims and aspirations. Lea looks unflinchingly at all that may challenge his faith: the cruelties of both natural and human worlds, the attractions of jolly, good-hearted secularism, the distortions of doctrinaire religiosity, the seeming pointlessness of untimely deaths; but his faith in Christian redemption shines through even the bleakest of his poems.”
