The World As Is by Joseph Hutchison Hardback Book 9781630450373

In THE WORLD AS IS NEW ampamp SELECTED POEMS 19722015 Colorado Poet Laureate Joseph Hutchison gives voice to pain and passion sorrow and joy longing and exaltation His poems seem to result from a wrestling with angelsthe angels of transformation we all must confront to survive what Robert Penn Warren called ampquotthis century and moment of maniaampquot This poetry dark as it can be is also filled with compassion for the wounded psyche the torn family the persistence of nature the gift of deep love and the healing power of art These poems sing with a sensuousness born of experience insisting that there is more to everything than meets the eye As Paul ampEacuteluard put it ampquotThere is another world but it is in this oneampquot The world as is