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FACILITATED AT THE INTERSECTION of faith, personal experience, and philosophical scrutiny, The Postmodern Poet: Himeros & Anteros, interrogates existence through the wordplay of formal and verbally aesthetic poetry. In his debut publication, Josiah Macrae Callaghan recounts the emotive tremors and angst released by first love and repeated heartbreak, as both boyhood idealism and faith are deeply unsettled by the suffocation of romance and the silence of the transcendent. Sensing the peculiar and vexing march of history shifting, Callaghan narrates his own sojourn, wandering from age to age and page to page, in the restless quest for requited love and an authentic spirituality in the desacralized world of postmodernism. This anthology is an ode to the once enchanted world of the divine and the sublime, a hopeful prayer for the resurrection of dreams, and a raw and vulnerable lament for the dissipation and death of that which is unrecoverable.

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Callaghan offers the lyrical catharsis of an old soul, kidnapped from some ancient utopia, held hostage here in the dystopian now. This collection documents the melodious struggle of one enthralled by ideals of life and love, but who now must scratch and struggle to enjoy life and love as it comes to him here in the actual world. Readers who enjoy classic verse and clever abstraction will adore this fine collection. -Dan Kent, author of The Fundamentals of Skywriting, Diamonds Mixed with Broken Glass, and Tender Lines of Code Raw, soul-rending, vulnerable-are but a few sentiments that rise up in the reader of Callaghan's compelling debut collection. The Postmodern Poet is verse that is at once lyrical when in the proximity of abiding love-'the weaver of a strangely urgent thread'-or a ' bloodletting nearly fatal' in its felt void and long- ing. This is a work of a self-confessed romantic, a coming-of-age voice that demands of God either 'complete absence or total presence' even as it heralds at last a full-throated celebratory faith that 'Love never dies!' I look forward to more of what this promising artiste du langage has yet to herald. -D.J. Rohling, author of Ford's Crossing (formerly Ashes, Ashes) and soon-to-be-released, Rainie Hart

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JOSIAH MACRAE CALLAGHAN is a Minnesota native, born and raised outside of Minneapolis. Carrying with him the heritage of his Irish, German, and Scandinavian ancestors, Callaghan follows in the footsteps of his great-great-grandfather, Knut B. Birkeland, a minister and prolific writer. Inspired by the inherited residue of folk tales and the corpus of Western literature, from Virgil and Sappho to Milton and Emerson, Callaghan finds solace in the pursuit of wisdom and self-expression through creative writing and theological inquiry. Hereceived a Bachelor of Arts in Biblical and Theological Studies from Bethel University in 2017 and completed his Master of Arts at Luther Theological Seminary in 2020. When time allows, Josiah finds refuge in the pristine wilderness of the Boundary Waters or in the pages of an enticing classic.

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