Under the Mercy +
a wandering poet always in pursuit of the perfect word and dedicated to an almost Augustinian quest for beauty and truth.
Verified: I wrote some stuff, and supposedly I’m an expert on stuff.
Supporting white devil sophistry and writing hermeneutic scholia on the palimpsest of time since late 2014.
interests:
poetry, theology, folklore, mythology, translation, critical theory, botany, and astrophysics
Eliot, Bunting, Rilke, Berryman, Dante, the metaphysical poets (Donne, Traherne, Herbert, Crashaw, etc.), twentieth-century German poetry, Anglo-Saxon literature, medieval literature, jisei, Arabic and Persian literature, some contemporary poetry.
liturgy and rubrics, bestiaries, and breviaries.
buy my books:
John Donne: Holy Sonnets (introduction and notes by me)
The Coventry Mystery Plays (forthcoming in July 2015)
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