Monday, August 4, 2014

Christian Barter


We simply have to feature "My Glorious Return" by Christian Barter in Ascent, Oct. 2009. What a great style this poet has, and the opening line is quite interesting--without sacrificing a Shelley-like beauty that's been updated a little for the modern world:

The field is swaying in wet flames
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Later lines continue to evoke a type of Poe-style, almost gothic True Detective air:
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again into their cloisters will sing out

with all the echoing depth of the converted.

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