Description: These poems--selected from the award-winning poet's
output over four decades--more explicitly than any of his prior
volumes address the centrality of Christian vision to his aims and
aspirations. Lea looks unflinchingly at all that may challenge his
faith: the cruelties of both natural and human worlds, the
attractions of jolly, good-hearted secularism, the distortions of
doctrinaire religiosity, the seeming pointlessness of untimely
deaths; but his faith in Christian redemption shines through even
the bleakest of his poems. Endorsements: ""The life in Sydney Lea's
poems is entirely local, whether the locale is Italy, Montana, or
his home in Vermont . . . The making of the soul that occurs in
Sydney Lea's poems is intimately connected with the place where the
making occurs . . . Sydney Lea's poems show us that all
spirituality is local spirituality. He is our preeminent poet of
the soul's making among local places and people."" --Mark Jarman
Author of Bone Fires: New and Selected Poems ""Sydney Lea's
heartbreaking and heartening poems look, with the utmost honesty,
at 'what we may or may not be / here on earth.' . . . These] urgent
poems give us back the depth of our existence. With intelligence,
passion, and humility, Lea embraces the task he has been given: to
record those 'warming recollections' of parents, friends, wife and
children, and to acknowledge how this 'splendid universe subsumes .
. . his small dumb witness' into a 'hymn of grateful praise.'""
--Robert Cording Author of Walking with Ruskin ""In this book
Sydney Lea invites us to take a spiritual journey . . . By the end
of Six Sundays, the narrator and the reader step together into
radiant light. What is so moving about Six Sundays is not only its
wrestling with spiritual questions, but also Lea's affirmation that
life is a spiritual journey and that this journey is of paramount
importance."" --Jeanne Murray Walker Author of A Deed to the Light
""From his experience of doubt to his affirmation of the Mystery,
the poet's faith shows through honest and eloquent language . . .
Lea's unique gift of language opens up the most ordinary detail of
village life in northern Vermont and raises it to universal
significance. His compassionate gaze at suffering and loss is
balanced by his embrace of nature in all its forms and by moments
of ecstatic revelation."" --Robert Siegel Author of A Pentecost of
Finches: New and Selected Poems About the Contributor(s): Sydney
Lea lately retired after more than forty years of teaching at
Dartmouth, Yale, Wesleyan, and Middlebury Colleges, as well as at
several European universities. Lea was a Pulitzer finalist for his
volume of poems Pursuit of a Wound, and won the 1998 Poets' Prize.
He holds the doctorate in Comparative Literature from Yale.
Recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and
Fulbright Foundations, he founded and for thirteen years edited New
England Review, one of the nation's leading literary quarterlies.
This is his tenth volume of poems; he is also author of a novel, A
Place in Mind, and two collections of naturalist essays, Hunting
the Whole Way Home and A Little Wildness. He is currently the poet
laureate of the state of Vermont.
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