Again with the Light: Poems - Paperback

by Matthew Robb Brown (Author)

With poems composed over five decades, but predominantly for his 2016 Ashland University MFA thesis of the same title, Again with the Light is a collection drawn from an entire life. It comes, first, from a childhood on the autistic spectrum, improperly diagnosed, in which a fascination with forests, trees, birds, water, and rough pathways of the literal and metaphorical kind provide a landscape of imagery for the whole. Increasingly, an attraction toward Christ leads through numerous permutations of faith and various Christian communities to Eastern Orthodoxy, an earthy, unearthly place with a connection to kenosis and theosis. Along the way come lives of saints and prosodic experiments in a postmodern but reachable style.

Author Biography

Matthew Robb Brown has been writing and publishing poetry since 1969. He earned his master's of fine arts in poetry at Ashland University (2016) and has had work appear in numerous magazines, small presses, and anthologies, most recently in Image 102. This is his first full-length poetry collection.