Publisher's Synopsis
Kevin Hart is not only one of Australia's most important poets but a major figure in world poetry. He is a visionary writer who has taken his bearings as much from English Romanticism and European Modernism as from the Bible, Plato and Meister Eckhart. Hart's poetry is dual in nature and inspiration, embracing the pain and passion of humanity at the same time as it evokes the immanence of God in the world. His double-edged poetry is both radiant and grounded, sensuous and searching, casting both light and shadow on what can be named while tracing the borderlines of what must be left unnamed. It does not betray these borders, but respects their mystery and complexity. As Hart has written: 'The best conductor of mystery is clarity. The true bearer of complexity is simplicity.'
