Customer Reviews

Something At The Center

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

If not, step out on a limb and discover "Something At The Center."

Barry Harris has published a delightful, multi-dimensional book of poetry. Through these pages we are allowed an intimate glimpse of one man's tribute to God, friends, and community. Share his triumphs, disappointments, curiosities, revelations and spiritual truths.  

"Something At The Center" is fulfilling poetry.  It will speak to you beyond the page and touch your heart.

This fine book of poems explores several aspects of searching, and perhaps finding, a sense of the divine through relationships with the self and friends and family. But to me, the poems that speak the loudest of real faith are those that don't confront it directly. The purest truths are off to one side of that center, tucked into the folds of poems like "The Eve of the Fourth of July" and "State Road 13". The poem that seems to glide and meander closest to Mr. Harris' sought-after center is "Mystic Man". It glows as he glows, standing "deep inside God's smile". "One of Those Nights" lets you imagine something of the physical person behind the words, his body at meditation, and then rushing over the finish line to "grass green and good", while giving you an equal insight into his soul. I loved the Indiana-ness of "Summer's End" and the rhythms of "Probing the Mysteries of the Holy" and the spot-on soaring magic of a solo road-trip in "Carolina New Year's Eve". "Thunderstorm Warning" feels like an endpiece. Corners have been turned, and things could change instantly, at any moment. Even in that same-old approach to home.