Lights & Mysteries

By Thomas Centolella

This second collection of poems from multi-award winning poet Centolella mixes Zen and Hasidic philosophy with classical skepticism, resulting in imaginative and compassionate impressions of daily details of life in urban America. A finalist for the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556591063
• ISBN13: 9781556591068
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Moving

I've just read "In the Evening we shall be Examined on Love." and it inspires and breaks the heart t once. Centolella might not have the name recognition of Mya Angelo, or other modern poets, but he schorched my sould deeper than they ever have or shall.

Some poets craft. Centolella creates.

Lights & Mysteries is not a collection of poems. Despite its table of contents and apparently standard form, Thomas Centolella's work is a journey. Between these two covers lies a path rich with love and inspired by careful observation. Centolella writes in an intense, acute and passionate style that honors his experiences and blesses his reader. Never before have I read poems so personally evocative. Never before have I been so enriched by language, rhythm and hope.