The Hatching of the Heart

Auteur

Margo Swiss teaches English and Creative Writing at York University, Toronto. In addition to academic publications on Milton and Donne, her poems have appeared in magazines and five anthologies. She has previously published Crossword: A Woman's Narrative (1996) and edited Poetry and Liturgy: An Anthology of Canadian Poets (2007), both in The St. Thomas Poetry Series.

Texte du rabat

Poems of nature and childhood initiate this poetic journey of the heart. The loss of family and friends prompts the search for divine relation. Pastoral lyrics, elegies, and colloquies culminate in the "necessary" breaking of the heart as it mystically "hatches" and the Incarnate life shines through.