Böcker av Richard Lee Granvold

In this sobering sequel to his first poetic volume, Richard Lee Granvold presents a thundering sermon railing against the ongoing epidemic of gun violence in America. Rooted in the chaos of the Trump era, Granvold trains his lyrical eye on the forest fires sweeping over his home state of Oregon, the eruption of violent protests and riots¿some just, and others less söand the spiritual decay of a country suffering bitter political strife. With his signature songlike verses, Granvold writes a pained call to action to hark to America's better angels while there's still time.

Angels. Time. Christ. God. Planting religious figures within contemporary visions, Richard Lee Granvold melds these ideas together into a poetic ballad concerned with finding the eternal self within the now. Evoking the mystical lyricism of poets like Yeats and Whitman, Granvold's search is one for spirituality within the cogs and clock arms of modern times. Death approaches all, but Granvold fixes his gaze beyond it, beyond the horizon, upon the angels which beckon us forward through time.