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Wally Swist
A collection of the Wally Swist’s most mystical work, The Bees of the Invisible regards nature, spirit, and an array of personal memories.
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In what can be described as a watershed collection of poetry, Evanescence: Selected Poems assembles nearly 250 poems by Wally Swist. Largely nature poems and poems regarding spirituality, this work…
Rainer Maria Rilke wrote in a letter-later collected in the posthumous book Letters to a Young Poet-that a writer always has a storehouse of inspiration to draw upon from childhood…
This collection of essays and reviews extends and complements the work collected in two earlier volumes: Singing for Nothing: Selected Nonfiction as Literary Memoir (The Operating System, 2018) and On…
A collection of poems from acclaimed poet Wally Swist.
In this remarkable collection, Wally Swist deftly fuses the sensual-in food, in nature, in art-with the intellectual and spiritual. Swist’s poetry pulls us magnetically from one image to the next…
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Poet Wally Swist blends themes of love and epiphany to lead readers into a more conscious interaction with the world around them. These ethereal poems call upon a spirituality unfettered…
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The hallmarks of Wally Swist’s poetry are a keen naturalist’s eye and a sensitive crafting of language. In On Beauty …, he exhibits the same qualities in critical and fictional…
The essays, reviews, and prose collected in Singing for Nothing offer Swist’s poetic ruminations, socio-political thought, and philosophy over 40 years. Pushing the boundaries of nonfiction and memoir, this text…
Giuseppe Ungaretti
"Trench warfare and lyric poetry are an unusual-pairing. Some readers would doubtless even recoil at the notion of linking the two. After all, the former shows the ugliness and bestiality…
David Breeden
This book-length poem imagines the Hebrew prophet Amos writing his memoirs from beyond the grave. Born into poverty and obscurity, Amos the shepherd and sycamore pruner faced daunting challenges in…
The title says it all. These are clearly written, luminous poems about nature and relationship and love.
This remarkable collection is the clearest manifestation yet of the spiritual posture that has influenced Wally Swist’s work for decades. Both visionary and mystical, the book centers around a sonnet…
