Bright, Inhabited Lives

Incidental to the evidence That meaning proves

Like a dough,

That thoughts do reach out

From the page

And claim us, knead

Us into form, rise . . .

-Excerpt from Blind Girl Reading, by Ejnar Nielsen

Through an evocative dialogue with art and life, these ekphrastic poems become a springboard into deeper layers of meaning, possibility, and our rich human capacity for transcendence. Born out of an interplay between image and language, the tensions which can only be "resolved by beauty," they invite each one of us to a keen attentiveness to all that's buried underneath the surface of our lives.