The Law of the Unforeseen

Poetry. Edward Harkness writes about family history family history the natural world--its beauty its degradation--the strange miracle of consciousness. Nothing is off the table. In fact everything is on the table including the kitchen sink. They move from the personal to the universal to the quickened heart of shared emotion.. In THE LAW OF THE UNFORESEEN the law Harkness speaks of requires us to know now and then. We walk under the trees of unremembrance so that we may know who we are how we got here and who we came from. And we arrive in this lovely and threatened paradise called Earth right now. The endless replication of clam shells ants / hyacinths in spring?--its true we will lose those things individually but these poems savor such stuff and in that savoring they give us hope for the future.--Robert Wrigley. Ed Harknesss great gift is for the lyric telling of the hearts winding chronicle. Permeated with the keenly felt ache of life the world breaking your heart and somehow mending it these poems celebrate the sensuous beauty of this gold world in deep music line by line. Harknesss poems are a necessary sustenance for our present perilous moment.--Alicia Hokanson