With consummate skill, subtle and exacting artistry, and fierce
passion, Tania Runyan's first collection, Simple Weight,
brilliantly unveils the mysterious ties tethering heaven to earth
and] explores the painful and troubling journeys of a soul in
search of the divine.... Hers is a voice brimming with a palpable
humanity and beautiful pathos--complex, wise, mutable, and wholly
original. --Maurya Simon, author of The Raindrop's Gospel
__________ Spiritual without being in the least bit preachy, Runyan
deals in matters of the heart, letting us experience the ineffable
through a variety of subjects, often commonplace objects: a dead
goldfish, a broken dishwasher, dust mites.... Runyan uses deeply
infused language throughout: "I chew the name God, God like
habitual / gum." God, "the holy / singularity." "God who buries //
his miracles in the soil." These] poems have weight--emotional,
spiritual, political--but are anything but simple. --Barbara
Crooker, author of Radiance, Line Dance, and More __________ Tania
Runyan claims she does not concern herself with things too
marvelous for her. Well, she's lying. Simple Weight ponders and
illuminates cicadas emerging from the earth and martyrs merging
their bones with dust. In Runyan's world--which is our world--the
human intrudes upon the holy, making it more holy still. These
poems, like the Psalms themselves, will fall through the years
"like a muscle of water." Drink deeply. --Paul Willis, author of
Rosing From the Dead: Poems
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