Synopsis
With poems composed over five decades, but predominantly for his 2016 Ashland University MFA thesis of the same title, Again with the Light is a collection drawn from an entire life. It comes, first, from a childhood on the autistic spectrum, improperly diagnosed, in which a fascination with forests, trees, birds, water, and rough pathways of the literal and metaphorical kind provide a landscape of imagery for the whole.
Increasingly, an attraction toward Christ leads through numerous permutations of faith and various Christian communities to Eastern Orthodoxy, an earthy, unearthly place with a connection to kenosis and theosis.
Along the way come lives of saints and prosodic experiments in a postmodern but reachable style.
About the Author
Matthew Robb Brown has been writing and publishing poetry since 1969. He earned his master's of fine arts in poetry at Ashland University (2016). His first book, Again with the Light, is from Resource Publications (2020). In his latest book, Remember the Brotherhood, Matthew acts as editor and commentator of the poems of his late friend. Matthew's work has appeared in journals and anthologies, most recently Image 102 and The Merton Journal (Advent 2021). His friend Carter Lee Aldridge, who passed away in 1990, was a poet and print artist.
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