The Omnipotent Nearness of Every Other Thing To pay by check please use this order form. We are pleased to take orders from retailers. Email us with details about your order or call us at 207-837-5760. This is the work of a hammer attempting to be gentle to a nail. It searches for ecstasy, but finds instead the world that ecstasy alludes to. POETRY / General ISBN: 978-1-962082-59-4 (print; softcover; perfect bound) LCCN: 2024952902 Copyright 2025; released February 25, 2025 100 pages |
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Philip Jason is the author of one other collection of poetry, I Don’t Understand Why It’s Crazy to Hear the Beautiful Songs of Nonexistent Birds |
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“Philip Jason is one of my favorite poets and The Omnipotent Nearness of Every Other Thing is a cause for celebration. There is a strange wisdom flowing through this book, and the poems have the power to say things that are at first so odd but then so undoubtedly true. The poet’s scope is truly cosmic and considers life from the simple amoeba to the planets and stars, pointing to a holiness surrounding everything. Jason has given us a book that is visionary, warm, and wise.” “The Omnipotent Nearness of Every Other Thing by Philip Jason uses poetry to teach us how to live more fully, more openly, more connected to each other. Filled with beautiful and surprising images, this tender, tough book offers wisdom in lyrical language and takes you through to love in the most unexpected ways and unusual places. There are angels here, and garbage, God, balloons, an unfinished swan, and always, an effort to connect the human to the universe and the universe to the universe within the human. To read this book is to fall into a state of wonder and come out knowing more about what life is for. As one poem puts it, ‘Once a heaven is seen, / everything blossoms upward.’” |
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