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There is a fresh candor and a new ease of utterance in this fifth volume of poems by the Dominican writer Paul Murray. What most immediately impresses, in lyric after lyric, are the moments of quiet epiphany. But such moments of vision have not been easily achieved. Throughout the work, rather than avoid the ""torn"" and wounded areas of our lives, a range of feelings and experiences--unnamed, invading, threatening, desired--are courageously explored. In the end, the vision, the spiritual awareness that is attained, is the more persuasive and convincing for having first been tested.

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"""Paul Murray is doing something rare and unsparing: in these poems, he is drawing trom the deep sources of the Christian creative tradition confidently and without anxiety or apology, so that that tradition, and the spirit which animates it, feels just a hand's-breadth away.""--Paul Elie ""Paul Murray's poetry is something very rare in literature: absolutely authentic, visionary, and consoling. Some of the subjects that he contemplates are innocence, memory, prayer, woundedness, grief, and divine joy. He takes us on a journey of brokenness and wholeness, unswerving in his scrutiny of darkness, but always--in breathtaking ways--showing us flashes of hope and insight that are lit with the presence of the divine and conveyed with disarming simplicity. This is a book to reach for in times of both tranquility and turbulence."" --Sally Read ""Fr. Paul Murray's Light at the Torn Horizon has turned out to be a rare gift I had not expected. Reading these poems, poring over their beautiful clarity and humility, has been like meeting a soulmate--Virgil, a Dante--on the journey toward that Light, conversing with words that crack open and sparkle with the divine Word.""--Paul Mariani"

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Fr. Paul Murray, OP, an Irish Dominican friar, lives in Rome, where he teaches courses on the literature of the Western mystical tradition at the Angelicum University. He is a Fellow of the Word on Fire Institute and has published many books, including St. Catherine of Siena: Mystic of Fire, Preacher of Freedom; A Journey with Jonah: The Spirituality of Bewilderment; Scars: Essays, Poems, and Meditations on Affliction; Aquinas at Prayer: The Bible, Mysticism, and Poetry; and God's Spies: Michelangelo, Shakespeare, and Other Poets of Vision.

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