![]() ![]() Tina Schumann, Poetry Editor of Wandering Aengus Press and author of Praising the ParadoxĬhristopher Martin’s Firmament is a masterpiece of specificity. Each of us finding shelter /in all the living and the dead/given to the understory. These poems live in the parallel realms of the natural world that can be counted on for peace and beauty, and the faulty human world that often fails us, but which we cannot live without. ![]() Whether that be a religion, a country’s history, an acceptance of hurt from those closest to you or a trust in your own instincts born from human vulnerability and earth-bound revelations. We live within place names, histories large and small, the families we create and our families of origin, but how does a person come into their own? How does one manifest their own sense of faith via the roles of father, son, citizen, poet, and earth-steward? In Christopher Martin’s insightful and often stunning collection Firmament, coming into one’s own involves the will and guts to say no to your inheritance, to question all that has been handed to you. Jenny Sadre-Orafai, Author of Dear Outsiders and Malak Every poem in this collection feels like a revelation. With Martin as unflinching guide, we’re shown what’s temporary and what’s permanent, what it means not to turn away, and how to find redemption amidst injustice. ![]() In the intimate and lyrical poems of Firmament, Christopher Martin is wanderer and observer wading through natural and spiritual landscapes as he considers “what it means to die yet remain bound to a living thing” and how our connection to nature is our connection to spirituality. Winner of the Wandering Aengus Book Award ![]()
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