Of Angels: Poems & Translations

By Wally Swist

Angels used to appear in literary works with at least moderate frequency. However, in our modern, often immoderately jaded society, angels aren't considered at all. In a sublime presentation, and a balance of original work and translations carefully considered by the author, Of Angels is evidence that these heavenly creatures, who are not born and do not die, exist. However, different from UFOs, angels are of both the real stuff and divine nature. Leonard Cohen wrote: "When we don't pray to the angels/ the angels don't pray for us." Perhaps just reading these poems at least resemble acts of prayer. Certainly they are ritualized devotions that exhort the divine in real ways in which the everyday offers an opportunity to find the numinous in the commonplace, and before we realize that we might chance to see one, "they disappear, and in our astonishment, / in as much as when they appear, / they vanish, and instill within us their/ magnitude."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HJY2QNB8
• ISBN13: 9798899906534
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Finishing Line Press
• Length: 78 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.2" x 6.0"