The Wish Furnace - 9781952593482

Thoreau wrote, "...I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." As well as a writer, Randy Blythe has been a plumber, a percussionist, an editor, a teacher, and a farmer. So it's understandable that a reader will encounter, in The Wish Furnace-Blythe's second full-length collection-abundant evidence that the poems' perceiver, like Thoreau, wants to inhabit every human moment. This is difficult, the reason why a Blythe poem that celebrates belief may be followed by a poem bent on questioning belief's worth. Blythe refuses easy binary thinking when a greater challenge looms. Sometimes labeled "a religious poet," he denies that descriptor, choosing instead to explore matters of existence and spirit simultaneously, with the relentlessness of a born seeker.

• | Author: Randy Blythe
• | Publisher: Futurecycle Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 03, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 76 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1952593484
• | ISBN-13: 9781952593482