Light at the Torn Horizon
Light at the Torn Horizon
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“Paul Murray’s poetry is something very rare in literature: absolutely authentic, visionary, and consoling. Some of the subjects that he contemplates are innocence, memory, prayer, woundedness, grief, and divine joy. He takes us on a journey of brokenness and wholeness, unswerving in his scrutiny of darkness, but always—in breathtaking ways—showing us flashes of hope and insight that are lit with the presence of the divine and conveyed with disarming simplicity. This is a book to reach for in times of both tranquility and turbulence.”
—Sally Read, Author of 100 Great Catholic Poems
“Fr. Paul Murray’s Light at the Torn Horizon has turned out to be a rare gift I had not expected. Reading these poems, poring over their beautiful clarity and humility, has been like meeting a soulmate—a Virgil, a Dante—on the journey toward that Light, conversing with words that crack open and sparkle with the divine Word.”
—Paul Mariani, author of The Mystery of It All: The Vocation of Poetry in the Twilight of Modernity
“In this new volume, in poem after poem, Paul Murray stands before the world, at once attentive to the raw and befuddled human condition and the intimations of wisdom that come, like music and mystery, to draw us toward the real. At times echoing the Eliot of Four Quartets, these poems call on us to return to the wonder in which every life begins.”
—James Matthew Wilson, Author of Saint Thomas and the Forbidden Birds