Welcome Center

<p>In <em>Welcome Center</em> Justin Den Herder crafts a luminous compassionate poetic landscape where the spiritual intersects with the everyday and wonder is not a rarity but a practice. These poems gather readers at the brink of mystery and memory teasing out the transformative potential of presence.</p><p></p><p>Structured in five parts the book is arranged like a hike through strata of human experience from the natural to the divine. It posits that welcome is a fundamental and defining characteristic of being human.</p><p></p><p>These poems believe in the power of attention and mercy. In a world obsessed with motion and achievement <em>Welcome Center</em> makes a radical gesture; it asks us to center ourselves by pausing and witnessing. 'Maybe appreciation is our purest action'.</p>