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    These Intricacies
    These Intricacies
    These Intricacies
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    These Intricacies

    By David Harrity

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    These Intricacies is a book of poems traversing the intersection of family, fatherhood, and faith. Set in shifting, vibrant spaces of a rich Kentucky landscape, and wrought with metaphysical crisis, this collection charts the slow, seismic shifts of growth bound up in understanding the nature of home. Dangling between struggle and tranquility, the poems in These Intricacies evoke a contemplative exploration of masculinity and vocation as the poet and reader journey together to discover and dissolve the discontinuities of how we are loved and how we can love others.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCascade Books
    Release dateOct 1, 2015
    ISBN9781498236942
    These Intricacies
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    David Harrity

    Dave Harrity travels the United States teaching workshops on contemplative living, imagination and poetry. His work has appeared in Memorious, Revolver, Killing the Buddha, The Los Angeles Review, Confrontation, Softblow and elsewhere. He is the author of the poetry craft and spirituality manual Making Manifest: On Faith, Creativity, and the Kingdom at Hand (2013) and two books of poetry, These Intricacies (Cascade Books, 2015) and Our Father in the Year of the Wolf (Word Farm, 2016). An assistant professor of English at Campbellsville University, and a recipient of the William Alexander II and Lisa Percy Fellowship at the Rivendell Writers' Colony, he lives in Louisville, Kentucky, with his wife and children.

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      These Intricacies

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      Table of Contents

      Title Page
      1
      Naming the Stars
      In January
      The Jilted Husband Speaks
      Slave Wall
      The Hole
      Contemplating the Egg
      My Grandfather Sings Again
      Atropos
      The Shuttle
      At Cave Hill Cemetery
      Northern Cross
      Where Shadows Come From
      Fathom
      You are Sitting in the Kitchen, Only a Witness
      Loving Thy Neighbor
      Etymology
      On Prayer #1
      2
      Novena
      3
      On Prayer #2
      Was Blind
      Hallelujah, I’m a Bum
      Trigger
      To Mark the Place
      Confession
      Natural Order
      Ghost Story
      From the Hammock
      Quanta
      Bluegrass Winter View
      Pantoum Breakfast Scrabble
      At Spofford Lake
      Poem to Usher in the Season
      At Pleasant Hill to Visit Shakertown
      After Chuck’s Zen Garden
      Your Days Are Waiting
      Acknowledgements / Notes

      This collection of elemental Kentucky poems will land ‘like starlight in your throat.’ You will want to sing Dave Harrity aloud to find that words have wombs," that what he calls the dusk in our bodies, our ‘cairns of guilt,’ still birth and mark dim paths of light. These Intricacies will clear a way into your own and leave you grateful for each twist and sudden turn. Like St. Augustine, ‘Take and read.’"

      —Paul Willis author of Say This Prayer into the Past

      "In these poems, Dave Harrity invites us—into the poems, yes, but also into thought and quiet and a contemplative solitude rare in our century. Here is a poet attentive to the worlds beyond us and the worlds within us. Here are poems that appreciate creation’s perfection and life’s imperfection. These Intricacies reveals stars and stone walls and kitchen windows—those things I thought I already knew—with unfamiliar and welcome clarity."

      —Lynn Domina author of Framed in Silence

      "Intricate only begins to describe the delicate, strong, interlaced qualities of Dave Harrity’s poems. Because he values this world in all its complexity, Harrity refuses to reduce any part

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