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Watermark: Poems

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At the heart of Jeff Hardin's inventive seventh collection Watermark, a devotional, philosophical faith seeks "to know what can't be known," to step into, as if a sanctuary, "some deeper / deep / than what our words / can touch." In each poem, his meditations stitch back through a visible, vertical phrase-a whispered prayer, a "watermark"-that serves not only to anchor thought but also to align and to re-align the purpose of thought within "this bent and broken world." Born from Frost, Dickinson, Rilke, Whitman, and others, these phrases bind us and bless us at a time "when it seems the words / to enter others' lives / are disappearing." In an age in which it is increasingly difficult to "sort out what is true," Hardin's poems invite us to wake to the mystery all around us, to time's revelatory unfolding, and to how our minds might find healing, if not communion, if only we listened intently enough to hear "the intercessions / made on our behalf."
Book Details
Publisher:
Madville Publishing
ISBN:
9781948692809
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
80
Authors:
Jeff Hardin
Published Date:
2022-04-14
Language:
English
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About Jeff Hardin

An eighth-generation descendant of the founder of Hardin County, Tennessee, Jeff Hardin was born in Savannah, Tennessee. He holds a BS from Austin Peay State University and an MFA from the University of Alabama, and is a professor of English at Columbia State Community College in Columbia, Tennessee. He is the author of seven collections, including Fall Sanctuary (Story Line Press, 2005), winner of the Nicholas Roerich Prize; Restoring the Narrative (2015), winner of the Donald Justice Prize; No Other Kind of World (Texas Review Press, 2017), winner of the X.J. Kennedy Prize; and Watermark (Madville Publishing, 2022). His poems have appeared in The Southern Review, Ploughshares, and The Hudson Review.

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