Descent Ascent Transfiguration

This collection of poems is a series categorized within each word of the title: Descent Ascent Transfiguration. The collection illuminates a disordered darkened mind--akin to Hell--suffering leading toward joy and finally breaking through to a transfiguring perspective of the world. The poems intent is Dantean touching on the tensions of life death suffering and pain despair hope sin redemption and grace. In some ways it is a Baroque work: fragmentary beautiful painful yet hope shining through. There are poems dedicated to literary giants such as Flannery OConnor Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Tolkien some Norse mythology and beautiful natural imagery. It is a very personal collection but speaks to many who have walked the rough trodden road lined with dragons and even a few pleasant inns along the way--a journey taken alone but also with important edifying friendship that buoys the soul.