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Rhapsody with Dark Matter: Poems

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"Rhapsody" describes the effect of this book as much as the technique. I think of the expressions of my students, hearing the poem `Driving With Rumi'; they were rapt with attention, appreciative of the rich music, the connectedness to the light and location of the words and the sensitivity to the humble place of the poem's moment connected to the endless place of the world the poem described.

This is a volume that creates a beauty from the mundane in the same way that composers of liturgical music take the commonplace to find the sacred. Gundy finds this in family, culture, notes to old friends, his son's speech, the melodramas of the common uncommon people about him, and endless movement. Here is an intellect that is surprising, quirky, precise, appreciative, and observant both in the way of the scientist and the shaman. In one of many favorite poems here, the "Prairie Boy" contemplates a fresh landscape: "Where I live there are no mountains. Lack/is the father of beauty. Beauty is the father of the mountains./The mountains are the father of everything."

This volume will transport and amaze you.