Greater Things Than These is a lyrical fever dream-a cry from someone

laying in the dark on the chapel floor. In this incandescent debut collection,

Clayton James Hester writes with the hunger of a mystic and the heartbreak

of a lover unmoored. These poems are not polite. They weep, ache, yearn,

praise, and burn. They trace the sacred and profane in the aftermath of love,

the marrow-deep ache of desire, the ghost of God, and the body as both

altar and battlefield.

Raised on a Missouri farm and trained as a journalist, Hester fuses devotional

cadence with raw emotional maximalism. He writes toward the invisible, the

forbidden, the abandoned-inviting the reader to a place where vulnerability

becomes holy and grief becomes song.

This is not a collection for the dispassionate. It is a love letter to shattered

souls and everything that shatters them

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Clayton James Hester is a poet and former journalist who grew up on a Missouri farm and now writes at the intersection of eros, exile, and ecstatic return. He studies Creative Technology and Design in Boulder, Colorado, where he is slowly moving through myth and memory while turning his life into an ode to the sacred, the profane, and everything in between.