Gary Boelhower’s second major collection includes sixty-five poems that explore the ways we are named and branded with multiple identities, a clay vessel molded and imprinted from the inside and the outside by those who know us or think they do; by wounds, worries, stones, and nicknames; by place and absence; by teachers and traitors.
Gary Boelhowerhas taught ethics, leadership, and spirituality at the undergraduate and graduate levels for thirty years. He is the author ofMarrow, Muscle, Flight: Poems, which won the Midwest Book Award for poetry.
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Naming Ritesis such a generous collection it offers both blessings and confessions, dirt and bread, miracles and explosions, cruelty and mercy, great blue herons who resemble monks and blue jays clowning around, a lovers tender touch and the horrors of the nightly news.l&
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