Prayers to the Other Life

“This collection shares many themes with the work of John Logan, who is honored with an elegy in the book, themes of existential loneliness, alcoholism, ambivalence toward success, love of nature, cynicism about virtually everything but love, a spiritual connection to both one’s physical and intellectual roots. But the book is much more than the sum total of its passions, impressively framed with unobtrusive discipline, and an appealing poetic line. Through agreeing with Thoreau that man’s noblest activity is to aspire for anonymity, this poet is clearly entering a new phase.” 

—David Ray