Meditations in Times of Wonder

Michael Martin's Meditations in Times of Wonder is a collection of what might be called postmodern metaphysical poetry. It inhabits a space characterized by love and anger by pathos and laughter by perplexity and grace.<p>Michael Martin's poetry like that of St. John of the Cross is animated by a true mysticism which penetrates the mist of mystery and heals the schism that rends faith from reason. -- Joseph Pearce<p>Meditations in Times of Wonder hums the harmonies between the mundane and transcendent between the natural and the divine between time-bound and timeless truths. The effect of many of the poems is that of a Pre-Raphaelite painting -- rich allusive nourishing and evocative. -- Karen Swallow Prior