Angel of the Unknown: Poems - Paperback

by Claudia Jensen Dudley (Author)

You have never known such molten wings before,

you children of the earth, the air and seas.

I am your tide of tumult,

and the door flung open wide to all uncertainties. . . .

THE POEMS IN THIS VOLUME were almost all written since 2020, when the pandemic and other events ushered in a watershed moment for many. Questions carried for decades have perhaps never felt so urgent on both a mass and personal scale.

These poems explore moments, insights and gestures which might further enliven such deep questions--inviting a movement toward something truly new, unknown. All amid the most challenging of forces. The poems are perhaps asking, through images and word-song, if this is not the very play of forces for which we've been preparing all our lives--and the only configuration in which true growth is possible.