With engaging frankness shooting through unexpectedly at times to keep this Psalm-related collection from falling too far into seriousness, poet Charles A. Swanson provides a healthy take on religion that is diverse, human and sometimes even messy. AFTER THE GARDEN: SELECTED RESPONSES TO THE PSALMS holds poems that are rich in imagery, deep in metaphor and populated with vivid characters ... a preacher mourning his torched church, a longing farmwife endlessly grading tobacco, a boy who hides behind the stove when he knows he's been naughty, a mother who stains her dress helping her father-in-law gather from his garden. There is humor, too, bringing essential and startling variety to this collection. AFTER THE GARDEN journeys into the heart, the head, the groin of the individual before his maker. These poems, like the Psalms themselves, are full of questions: Where is God in pain, in loss, in drought, in family history? This is a book neither of paraphrases nor of praises, though a sense of thanksgiving breathes throughout. This is not a book of easy answers to tough questions. It is a search within the journey, a search through which the person seeking God can find his or her own struggle mirrored in the lines of these modern poems. (www.MotesBooks.com)
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The Roots of Poetry,
By John Guzlowski (Danville, VA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: After The Garden: Selected Responses to the Psalms (Paperback)
The poems in Charles Swanson's After the Garden: Selected Responses to the Psalms take us back to the true roots of poetry, to its source in prayer, music, and the lives of ordinary people who struggle to make sure that the ones who come after them are able to live lives of freedom, hope, and faith.
In these beautifully-shaped poems about growing up and living in the Virginia Piedmont and Appalachia, Swanson turns ordinary lives into extraordinary prayers. From the first poem to the last, the reader, whether he is a lover of poetry or one who seldom turns to it, will find poems that move him and inspire him.
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