Into the Sun: Poems Revised, Rearranged, and New - Softcover

Douglas, Colin B

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1434104192 ISBN 13: 9781434104199

Publisher: Waking Lion Press, 2019

Synopsis

Into the Sun is a magnificent collection of Colin Douglas's poetry, a curious, enlightening, and disturbing blend of striking imagery, intense spirituality, and subtle eroticism. Dennis Clark, in a review for the Association for Mormon Letters, called Douglas "a man too long in the shadows," "a remarkable poet" whose work proceeds "with all the clarity, logic, and irrationality of a dream." Clark explains, "The elements of the dream form a coherent whole without relying on either him or us to know a system of interpretation. That is one of the things that overwhelms me as a reader. The poems do not mean, but be--a state that allows me to inhabit them . . ., trying to find the key to that unknown language." Colin Douglas writes, "Poems of this kind can be merest glimpses through a window on the infinite and eternal and marvelous and rationally, literally unspeakable mystery of being; . . . of the erotic and convulsively beautiful ecstasy of Eternal Life and Creation."

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Review

“Utilizing traditional Latter-day Saint language, Colin Douglas breaks on thru to an authentic spirituality that knows no sect or dogma. Each poem in this collection offers a glimpse of Colin’s search for his own soul-voice. And through it all, he never fails to share his illuminations with the reader.”

—Alex Caldiero, 
Sonosopher & polyartist
Sr. Artist in Residence at UVU  

“Into the Sun has a little bit of everything: pastoral, psalms, prose poems, lamentations, surrealist parables, canticles to the beloved, etc. Colin Douglas is a seeker: one who follows the thread wherever it leads him, sometimes to deliverance, sometimes deeper into the labyrinth. Above all else, this book will keep you on your toes!”

—Lance Larsen,
Poet laureate of Utah (2012–2017)
Author of What the Body Knows
 

Edition details

• Publisher: Waking Lion Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1434104192
• ISBN 13: 9781434104199
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 292