By Nate Klug
Milton’s God
Where I-95 meets The Pike,
a ponderous thunderhead flowered—
stewed a minute, then flipped
like a flash card, tattered
edges crinkling in, linings so dark
with over the top bright
that, status, ready, on the overpass edge,
the onlooker couldn’t decide
until the top, or maybe then,
what was once published and what have been hidden.
Using quite a few kinds and attaining a number musical results, Nate Klug’s a person strains the unraveling of astonishment upon small scenes—natural and family, political and religious—across America’s East and Midwest. The book’s identify foregrounds the anonymity it seeks via numerous skill: first, via shut statement (a concrete observed, a goshawk, a bicyclist); and, moment, through translation (satires from Horace and Catullus, and excerpts from Virgil’s Aeneid). Uniquely between modern poetry volumes, an individual demonstrates fluency within the paradoxes of a spiritual life: “To stand someday / outdoor my religion . . . or retain ready / to be claimed in it.” Engaged with theology and the classics yet by no means abstruse, all of the whereas the poems stay grounded within the extra special, actual international of “what it really is to believe: / moods, part moods, / swarming, then darting loose.”
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