Spiritual Exercise

This is not just a book about spirituality. It's a celebration of spirituality as a natural and essential element of self-realization and human progress. Each and every one of these poems is a potential epiphany. The poet holds up spirituality as the ultimate goal of all human endeavor and an advance beyond organic life, which is "a carcass of thought used&abandoned, dust to dust, by all that's ever truly us." The highest work of the poet, he says, "is to translate what we blindly see as me...