The Mystery of Things

by Wilmer, Clive

• ISBN13: 9781857548242
• ISBN10: 1857548248
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-05-28
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.

Summary

Echoing the ecstasies of the Christian mystics, these poems access the sacred as often through erotic images as through physical objectsthe sublime and the mundane being equally potent media through which to experience the divine.

Table of Contents

I
Bottom's Dream	11	(2)
Dog Rose in June	13	(1)
Visitation	14	(1)
Wonderwoman	15	(1)
In the Library	16	(1)
The Ruin	17	(1)
The Holy of Holies	18	(2)
Much Ado about Nothing	20	(1)
Recorded Message	21	(1)
A Vision	22	(1)
The Ladder	23	(2)
Bethel	25	(1)
The Architect at his Mountain Villa	26	(1)
For my Daughter's Wedding	27	(1)
Overnight Snow	28	(1)
Plenty	28	(1)
Chutney	29	(1)
The Apple Trees	30	(1)
At Great Coxwell	31	(1)
Behold, the Fowls of the Air	32	(2)
In the Beginning	34	(2)
W.S. Graham Reading	36	(1)
To George Herbert	37	(1)
The Falls	38	(7)
II
Ghostliness	45	(1)
Stigmata
I The Visit to La Verna	46	(1)
II A Quotation	47	(1)
III As It Was	48	(1)
IV The Conversation	49	(1)
V Padre Pio	50	(1)
VI Symmetry	51	(1)
VII Spiritual Biography	52	(1)
VIII Walled Garden	53	(1)
IX The Second Day	54	(1)
X Piero's Resurrection 1	55	(1)
XI Piero's Resurrection 2	56	(1)
XII Healer	57	(1)
XIII The Names of Flowers	58	(1)
XIV The Desert	59	(1)
The Need for Angels	60