Greater Things Than These

<p>Greater Things Than These is a lyrical fever dream-a cry from someone</p><p>laying in the dark on the chapel floor. In this incandescent debut collection</p><p>Clayton James Hester writes with the hunger of a mystic and the heartbreak</p><p>of a lover unmoored. These poems are not polite. They weep ache yearn</p><p>praise and burn. They trace the sacred and profane in the aftermath of love</p><p>the marrow-deep ache of desire the ghost of God and the body as both</p><p>altar and battlefield.</p><p> </p><p>Raised on a Missouri farm and trained as a journalist Hester fuses devotional</p><p>cadence with raw emotional maximalism. He writes toward the invisible the</p><p>forbidden the abandoned-inviting the reader to a place where vulnerability</p><p>becomes holy and grief becomes song.</p><p> </p><p>This is not a collection for the dispassionate. It is a love letter to shattered</p><p>souls and everything that shatters them</p>