Love Like a Conflagration

Love Like a ConflagrationThere is not a poem in this remarkable book that will leave you unchanged or be forgotten Each of these poems is as permanently current as it is consummate. [Greer] puts on the page the passion long absent from American poetry. Ive never read a book as poetically and beautifully frank as this. Samuel Hazo, past poet laureate of Pennsylvania Jane Greers poetry is intelligent, profound, and tough, something like an avenging angel Technically sound and

— Mike Aquilina

a priest himself and a master of the art of fiction

Blessed Solanus Casey lived a life without the spectacle that’s common in biographies of the saints —without the drama and gore we find in the stories of the martyrs

—Ned Balbo

and cardinal

” The World as We Know It Is Falling Away

sorting through and making art of life's baggage

—Boris Dralyuk

This collection is a remarkable poetic achievement

have inspired millions over the past seven centuries

These words

We are always only ready to begin