The King's Touch: Poems

Tom Sleighs poems are skeptical of otherworldly intuitions, but in this brilliant new collection, they are charged with a visionary ardor to find forces beyond the self in which to ground our collective life. Even as the poems strive to imagine an alternative, more just existence, they are fully cognizant of the refugee crisis, war, famine, and the brutal reality of a crowded hospital morgue. The world of fact and the world of mystery collide in The Kings Touch, but in a resolutely secular ...