The Living Law

019  The Living Law
by Jesse Keith Butler

“Butler’s poems are thoughtful, well-crafted, and a pleasure to read.” — A.M. Juster, author of Wonder & Wrath

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“This is a very fine book. Jesse Butler has put his mastery of traditional poetic form to good use in these varied reflections on faith, personal tragedy, encounters with nature, life in the modern Canadian suburbs and many other things. These poems reveal a mind expansively curious about the world and deeply attentive to it.” — Burl Horniachek, editor of To Heaven’s Rim: The Kingdom Poets Book of World Christian Poetry

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Darkly Bright Press is pleased to announce The Living Law, the first poetry collection from Jesse Keith Butler. An awarding-winning poet from Canada, Butler promises to be a leading voice in contemporary formalism. Collecting meditations on theology, family life and culture, Butler’s debut presents the poet as a confident and hopeful voice.

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“It’s not so often that a debut collection of poetry reveals a care for poetic forms, a clarity in book structure, and a serious grappling with large ideas. Jesse Keith Butler’s ambitious The Living Law reaches for the large: a world that lacks its Blake to etch fire in the mind; makeshift shelters in a modern landscape stripped of spirit and transcendence; the pulse of life below the world’s veneer; the living law as gateway onto a wide, windswept expanse. (And don’t miss the hermit’s donkeys!)” — Marly Youmans, author of Seren of the Wildwood

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6 x 9 Softcover, 106 Pages
ISBN: 979-8-9899449-0-3
LCCN: 2024930881
$15

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