Greater Things Than These

laying in the dark on the chapel floor. In this incandescent debut collection,

Clayton James Hester writes with the hunger of a mystic and the heartbreak

of a lover unmoored. These poems are not polite. They weep, ache, yearn,

praise, and burn. They trace the sacred and profane in the aftermath of love,

the marrow-deep ache of desire, the ghost of God, and the body as both

altar and battlefield.

Raised on a Missouri far...